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From: mat@amdahl.amdahl.com (Mike Taylor)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now (computers that blow up)
Message-ID: <6861@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 17:45:49 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 17:45:49 1987
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In article <16754@amdcad.AMD.COM>, bandy@amdcad.AMD.COM (Andy Beals) writes:
> >> ... 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.");
> }
> 
        Of course it would happen. You can't use a C program this way.
        Everybody knows that Ada is the only language for making
        computers blow up - the DoD says so.


-- 
Mike Taylor                        ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,sun}!amdahl!mat

[ This may not reflect my opinion, let alone anyone else's.  ]