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From: bandy@amdcad.AMD.COM (Andy Beals)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now (computers that blow up)
Message-ID: <16754@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 13:47:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 13:47:55 1987
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Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, Ca.
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>> ... is a piece of software that actually makes a computer blow up ...

In article <1240@ssc-vax.UUCP> savage@ssc-vax.UUCP (Lowell Savage) writes:
>Uh.  I work for Boeing Aerospace Company.  We make things like, you know,
>missiles?  [...] Well, gee guys, come to think of it, we make a
>whole lot of computers and put software onto them to make them blow up ...

Yes, probably something like this:


detonate() {	/* bye bye */
	char	*firing_pin = BATCTL+23;

	*firing_pin = 1;
	*firing_pin = 0;
	/* NOTREACHED */
	panic("Missle didn't explode -- Can't happen.");
}

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Andrew Scott Beals, {lll-crg,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!bandy +1 408 749 3683