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From: mday@cgl.ucsf.edu (Mark Day)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: When to HLock
Message-ID: <10429@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 20:15:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 20:15:14 1987
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Keywords: Monkey DA

In article <21204@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>I spoke with Bill Atkinson at the first Hacker's Conference and he
>said that unlocked handles across function calls was the _costliest_
>source of bugs when he was debugging MacPaint. He said that the way he
>caught them was to use the DA "Monkey", which generates random key and
>mouse events.  The first time he thought MacPaint was done, Monkey
>crashed it in under 5 minutes. The version shipped with the first macs
>had survived 2 weeks under the Monkey.  (Consumer note: If you value
>your files, do not run Monkey on your hard disk.)
>

I have heard of many references to this mythical Monkey DA, yet I haven't
seen it on any billboards.  Can someone give me/the net an idea where we
can get it, so we can use it to crash our programs too.
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