Re: Creative Computing's error contest (was: Worst error messages...)

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From: p... Peter Scott
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 18:08

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In article <58...@rtech.Ingres.COM>, r...@squid.rtech.com (Phydeaux) writes:
> I recall that many moons ago Creative Computing had a contest for the smallest
> program that would generate the most error messages.  The winner was  a 1 line
> program  on some  IBM  machine which produced   error messages forever. Anyone
> remember anything more on this? It must have been in 1977 or 1978...

There was a 2-byte program (you could enter it from the debugger... so
I was told...) which would *crash* the IBM 370/165 at the University
of Cambridge when it was running MVS (or was it MVT?  I forget).


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