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Article #4336Re: Delete All Your Files
From: da... Dave Gillespie
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 23:46
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 23:46
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>>>>> On 4 Sep 90 02:33:31 GMT, meis...@osf.org (Michael Meissner) said: > The first internal revision of the Data General 32-bit AOS/VS PL/1 > compiler had a bug where it would sometimes delete your source file. I remember we once tried a new CAD tool here. I don't remember the details, but the idea was you wrote a file with a symbolic description of the chip you want to build and it compiles it into layout. So we typed in our first test file, ran the compiler, and it crashed half way through with some weird error message. No big surprise. We looked back in our source file and found the compiler had changed all the identifiers in the file into numeric ID's of some sort. Kind of like that C obfuscator that was posted somewhere a while ago. Presumably it had been planning to change them back afterwards... Anyway, we decided not to use that CAD tool. :-) -- Dave -- Dave Gillespie 256-80 Caltech Pasadena CA USA 91125 da...@csvax.cs.caltech.edu, ...!cit-vax!daveg
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu!daveg From: da...@near.cs.caltech.edu (Dave Gillespie) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Delete All Your Files Message-ID: <DAVEG.90Sep4164623@near.cs.caltech.edu> Date: 4 Sep 90 23:46:23 GMT References: <DAVEG.90Sep1034307@near.cs.caltech.edu> <MEISSNER.90Sep3223331@osf.osf.org> Sender: ne...@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 25 Posted: Wed Sep 5 00:46:23 1990 In-Reply-To: meissner@osf.org's message of 4 Sep 90 02:33:31 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit