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From: robertd@ncoast.UUCP (Rob DeMarco)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now (computers that blow up)
Message-ID: <2551@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-May-87 13:30:20 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 24 13:30:20 1987
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References: <1240@ssc-vax.UUCP> <16754@amdcad.AMD.COM> <6861@amdahl.amdahl.com>
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Ohio (The heart of it all....)
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In article <6861@amdahl.amdahl.com> mat@amdahl.amdahl.com (Mike Taylor) writes:
>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.  ]

   How about this?

--

# Shell script to blow up

scaner=1

pin1=1
pin2=1

if [ $pin1 = $pin2 -a $scaner = 1 ] ; then
  /usr/boaing/missile/blowup
  exit 10000
else
  echo "OOPS! What happened?"
fi

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