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Article #297Re: My true cookie story
From: pa...
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 19:01
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 19:01
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> From: Ansel...@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) > Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers > Subject: Re: My true cookie story > > In article <91...@asylum.SF.CA.US> sha...@asylum.SF.CA.US (Sharon Fisher) writes: > > The other interesting story I heard about computing at RPI was > 'wabbits.' As I recall, it involved running a program that generated > two copies of itself. Eventually, the load crashed the system. Reminds me of a little ditty I once wrote during the my early days on the "PDP"-10. It was called PIG, and being a good mother pig, spawned piglets. Using various techniques, piglets would eventually be running in all job slots in the system except that owned by the mother pig (PIG). At that point the following was typed out: "All good piggies are taking a nap, the machine is yours" and PIG exited. Bill (From the land of no signature)
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!decwrl!shlump.nac.dec.com!star.enet.dec.com!parke From: pa...@star.enet.dec.com Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: My true cookie story Message-ID: <7056@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 21 Dec 89 19:01:30 GMT References: <ANSELMO-ED.89Dec21120104@arizona.cs.yale.edu> <89347.200350RLE100@PSUVM.BITNET> <9154@asylum.SF.CA.US> Sender: newsd...@shlump.nac.dec.com Reply-To: pa...@star.enet.dec.com () Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH Lines: 26 Posted: Thu Dec 21 20:01:30 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit