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Subject: Crashing 360s (was Re: Creative Computing's error contest)
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From: leech@pooh.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
Date: 2 Oct 90 19:48:17 GMT
Reply-To: leech@pooh.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)
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In article <1990Oct2.180845.18310@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> pjs@aristotle.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>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).

    This brings back memories of my early hacking days at Caltech.  A
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
(presumably a result of /0 in supervisor mode).  This was passed on to
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:
  To: hack.dis:,pjmcc073,cdr29970,chr29970,cwx29970,dxd29970,hdc29970
  Cc: jtw29970,jvg29970,kfm29971,mjm29970,reh29970,sch29970,wcn29970
  Status: RO

       Lately I've noticed that I'm starting to flame somewhat; since I've been
  on grades, I've failed 27 units and passed an average of only 35.6 units per
  term; if you exclude second term last year (during which my student account
  was frozen and my GPA went up by 0.6 with 48 units) it's only 32.5.  (Heed
  well, compuflamers!)	This is a result of spending upwards of 40 hours per
  week playing with a dozen computer accounts on five machines.  I have decided
  that this outrageous computer habit must die (though I may rise again on the
  first term).	THEREFORE:
       I, ADS, being of sound body and flaming mind, do hereby bequeath the
  following possessions to these my heirs:
       To Joe Decker, in recognition of his calligraphy skills, the hours spent
  working on the display, and two frozen accounts, I give "damnvms.com" and
  "inuse.eps".	As he is one of the biggest contributors to the Jorgensen House
  List, I pass that list on to Joe.  Finally, because they make him so happy,
  I bequeath unto Joe "dumpdir.exe" and my cursor tracking bullets.
       To Tim Smith, I bequeath my quintuple secret trapdoor probation.
       To Carl Rigney, I bequeath "sign.com", as he helped write it.
       To Keith Hughes, I bequeath "inuse.com", "lock.com", "gandalf.exe", and
  "inuse.hlp".
       To Eric Scott, I bequeath my favorite munching terminak (last ADM3a- on
  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.
       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.
       To Jim Bys, I leave the rest of my priv word; he needs more privs.
       To Carl Lydick, I bequeath my gripe quota.
       To Sam Sjogren, I bequeath my disk quota and my holy shit points.
       To Wwango, I bequeath "RSXBasic2.hlp" and all the INtexts in Jorgensen.
  I hope he likes them.
       To Norman Wilson, I leave my HEP vax account.
       To Jon Leech, I leave the following JCL:
	  //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.
       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
       To INactive Systems Corporation, I leave my UIC of [20,1], which due to
  a bug of their making can read GRIPE's mail.box, and I also leave them a
  certain parity bit in dra2:[sysmgr]systartup.com.  They made it all possible.
       To Digital Equipment Corporation, I leave 4000 magtape parity errors
  from MTA3.
       To Val, I leave a floor worn by pacing.
       To Dale Woodford, I leave many, many brilliant sunrises, in gratitude
  for a machine room tour on one of those occasions.
       To Joe Garvey, I leave [SANTA] and the UIC [12,2], so he will have
  somewhere to send his Christmas wishes.
       All else I leave to Paul Ste. Marie, and commission him as my
  replacement, with all the duties that implies:  the hacking, the griping, the
  munching, and the flaming.  Paul gets the rest of my bin directory, including
  my login.com, basic.com, ucbbanner.exe, the various help files, and anything
  else he can get his hands on.  Paul is also stuck with the maintenance of
  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)    __@/
    "I met a wonderful new man. He's fictional, but you can't have everything."
	- Cecelia, _The Purple Rose of Cairo_