Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sei!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!ZEN.MT.CS.CMU.EDU!toad From: toad@CS.CMU.EDU (Todd Kaufmann) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: the TRS-80 destroyer Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 91 03:30:32 GMT References: <1991Feb24.080042.13482@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: toad@ZEN.MT.CS.CMU.EDU Distribution: alt Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Lines: 26 Approved: Lawnorder, Inc. In-reply-to: crew@CS.Stanford.EDU's message of 24 Feb 91 08:00:42 GMT Roger's entry in the Shortest-lisp-expression-that-can-completely-and- unrecoverably-f***-up-GNU-Emacs Contest: (mapatoms 'fmakunbound obarray) Here's Todd's, slightly shorter, but not the best: (while (setq inhibit-quit t)) Try this minimal five char sequence on a model-1 trash-80 (if i remember correctly--maybe the two lines are switched): '' REMember, the apostrophe is an abbrev for REMark. Hangs it, if not reset; maybe starts writing the stack into video RAM. It's back home in Illinois, so I can't test it now. My Mom was still using it until this summer, running a payroll program that I wrote 10 years ago. Certainly my longest existing, used program. When I had a plotter hooked up to it, I had a BASIC program which would print out the records, using a vector font I designed. Took about 30mins/page, but gotta keep these machines busy. An idle cycle is the devil's workstation, or whatever it is they say. Now I have a machine on my desk with 1000x more RAM. How times are changin'.