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From: ksand@mapper.UUCP (Kent Sandvik - the minor super user)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: /dev/null: The final frontier
Message-ID: <633@mapper.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-May-87 11:19:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: mapper.633
Posted: Fri May 29 11:19:03 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jun-87 06:39:26 EDT
References: <100@upas.UUCP> <608@hslrswi.UUCP>
Reply-To: ksand@mapper.UUCP (Kent Sandvik - the minor super user)
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In article <608@hslrswi.UUCP> robert@hslrswi.UUCP (J. Robert Ward) writes:
>>Where do the bytes go when moved or copied to /dev/null?
>>Does the machine dissipate the data as heat?
>>Robert White
>The answer may just be yes. 
>
>
>I doubt whether the bit bucket will ever fill up, but writing to
>/dev/null may eventually cause your machine to overheat.

Hmm, thats easy to implement...

	while true
	do
	cat /etc/passwd >/dev/null
	done

...I wonder why it's getting so warm in the computer room just now?
	
			Kent Sandvik

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