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From: boris@world.std.com (Boris Levitin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Joke or Virus?
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.012711.11347@world.std.com>
Date: 7 Dec 90 01:27:11 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.153445.7094@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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us269574@mmm.serc.3m.com (Darryn J. Kozak) writes:

>I received an unusual dialog error message yesterday and was wondering if
>it was truly an error - or maybe a virus. I was running an application 
>(Diskfit - backup utility), when a dialog box was displayed that had a
>bomb in it, the following message: "Sorry a critiical shortage of memory
>has forced this program to be terminated. Please assign blame below:",
>four check boxes (labeled: programmer, user, hardware, cosmic rays), and
>a default button labeled "Finder").

>Is this a Diskfit error, a system error, a virus - someones idea of a joke?

>At the time I didn't think it was very funny, since I had just backed up
>about 45MB of 55MB to floppies.

>Anyone know?

>        Darryn Kozak

>        3M Center
>        260-4A-08
>        St. Paul, MN 55144

>        phone:          612-733-3271
>        email:          us269574@mmm.3m.com or kozak@umn-cs.edu
>        FAX:            612-737-3213

I think it's part of the program.  I remember reading about it in one
of the magazines.