s X-NEWS: spcvxb alt.folklore.computers: 3907Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0 10/3/90 VAX/VMS V5.3; site spcvxb.spc.edu 8 Path: spcvxb.spc.edu!njin!rutgers!mcnc!thorin!pooh!leech" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computersC Subject: Crashing 360s (was Re: Creative Computing's error contest) % Message-ID: <16473@thorin.cs.unc.edu> , From: leech@pooh.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) Date: 2 Oct 90 19:48:17 GMT 0 Reply-To: leech@pooh.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu6 References: <1990Oct2.180845.18310@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>7 Organization: University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill  Keywords: errors	 Lines: 84   X In article <1990Oct2.180845.18310@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov writes:G >There was a 2-byte program (you could enter it from the debugger... so E >I was told...) which would *crash* the IBM 370/165 at the University A >of Cambridge when it was running MVS (or was it MVT?  I forget).   E     This brings back memories of my early hacking days at Caltech.  A D fellow member of the Odd Hack Committee discovered that submitting a? job to the 370 with a job time of 0 caused the machine to crash F (presumably a result of /0 in supervisor mode).  This was passed on toD me due to my dislike of the 370.  The mail in which this occurred is@ appended for people's possible amusement (no, it wasn't an April
 Fool's joke).   $   From ads29970 Apr  1 23:26:00 1981   Date: 1 Apr 1981 2326 "   Subject: Estate of the late ADS:E   To: hack.dis:,pjmcc073,cdr29970,chr29970,cwx29970,dxd29970,hdc29970 D   Cc: jtw29970,jvg29970,kfm29971,mjm29970,reh29970,sch29970,wcn29970   Status: RO  O        Lately I've noticed that I'm starting to flame somewhat; since I've been N   on grades, I've failed 27 units and passed an average of only 35.6 units perM   term; if you exclude second term last year (during which my student account L   was frozen and my GPA went up by 0.6 with 48 units) it's only 32.5.  (HeedK   well, compuflamers!)	This is a result of spending upwards of 40 hours per O   week playing with a dozen computer accounts on five machines.  I have decided N   that this outrageous computer habit must die (though I may rise again on the   first term).	THEREFORE: K        I, ADS, being of sound body and flaming mind, do hereby bequeath the *   following possessions to these my heirs:O        To Joe Decker, in recognition of his calligraphy skills, the hours spent K   working on the display, and two frozen accounts, I give "damnvms.com" and N   "inuse.eps".	As he is one of the biggest contributors to the Jorgensen HouseM   List, I pass that list on to Joe.  Finally, because they make him so happy, C   I bequeath unto Joe "dumpdir.exe" and my cursor tracking bullets. G        To Tim Smith, I bequeath my quintuple secret trapdoor probation. D        To Carl Rigney, I bequeath "sign.com", as he helped write it.N        To Keith Hughes, I bequeath "inuse.com", "lock.com", "gandalf.exe", and   "inuse.hlp".N        To Eric Scott, I bequeath my favorite munching terminak (last ADM3a- onE   the right in 166D), in deference to his proficiency in kernal mode. ?        To Rob Heiss, I bequeath the CMKRNL bit of my priv word. ?        To Dave Hayes, I bequeath the WORLD bit of my priv word. P        To Clare Waterson, I bequeath the PHY_IO and LOG_IO bits of my priv word,:   so she can run Egens at 9600 baud on the Tektronix 4010.I        To Jim Bys, I leave the rest of my priv word; he needs more privs. 1        To Carl Lydick, I bequeath my gripe quota. H        To Sam Sjogren, I bequeath my disk quota and my holy shit points.N        To Wwango, I bequeath "RSXBasic2.hlp" and all the INtexts in Jorgensen.   I hope he likes them. 4        To Norman Wilson, I leave my HEP vax account./        To Jon Leech, I leave the following JCL: 9 	  //CRASH JOB (29503,JVB,VAX),'CRASH THE 370',TIME=(0,1) & 	  /*JOBPARM IOC=0		  ;damn IBM anyway;        To Bill Naylor, I leave my knowledge of IBM-370 JCL. K        To Greg Jordan, the only known person to understand RMS, I leave the $   following RMS documentation files:+        fab.idx	 rab.idx   nam.idx   xab.idx N        To INactive Systems Corporation, I leave my UIC of [20,1], which due toJ   a bug of their making can read GRIPE's mail.box, and I also leave them aO   certain parity bit in dra2:[sysmgr]systartup.com.  They made it all possible. K        To Digital Equipment Corporation, I leave 4000 magtape parity errors    from MTA3..        To Val, I leave a floor worn by pacing.L        To Dale Woodford, I leave many, many brilliant sunrises, in gratitude4   for a machine room tour on one of those occasions.I        To Joe Garvey, I leave [SANTA] and the UIC [12,2], so he will have )   somewhere to send his Christmas wishes. D        All else I leave to Paul Ste. Marie, and commission him as myO   replacement, with all the duties that implies:  the hacking, the griping, the O   munching, and the flaming.  Paul gets the rest of my bin directory, including N   my login.com, basic.com, ucbbanner.exe, the various help files, and anythingK   else he can get his hands on.  Paul is also stuck with the maintenance of B   Sprint and associated kludges.  Good luck, Paul; you'll need it.) 					  Done this First Day of April, 1981  					  Don A. Speck  					  Executor:  Bill Peterson  					  Witnesses:  						  Paulo Raffaelli  						  John Bennett --(     Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/O     "I met a wonderful new man. He's fictional, but you can't have everything." & 	- Cecelia, _The Purple Rose of Cairo_