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From: rick@goforit (Rick Chestek)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Poetic Justice in a Machine Crash
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Date: 21 Sep 90 08:25:59 GMT
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Found on comp.parallel:

>Our Encore Multimax just crashed in a way that seems like poetic
>justice:
>
>    On the console terminal appeared a fragment of somebody's paper
>about multiprocessor interconnection networks.  The last readable
>sentence was:
>
>    "...it is difficult to build shared memory procesors
>    "
>    "^%%^$#$%#%$#it is difficult to build shared memory$%#%$#it is difficult to 
>    "build shared memory$%#%$#it is difficult to build shared memory$%#%$#it is 
>    "difficult to build shared memory%^$%^$%^$@#$@!$@#$@difficult to build
>    "shared memory$%#$%$%#$%shared memory%^$%^$%^ shared memory %&$%^^%$$%^%^$
>    "shared memory&*^&*&*^&*^shared memory
>
>...
>
>Almost too good to be true :-)
>
>(The screen garbage and control characters are not recorded verbatim).
>
>
>--
>Andy Glew, a-glew@uiuc.edu [get ph nameserver from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:net/qi]