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From: tkopp@carroll1.UUCP (Tom Kopp)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Summary: A REAL head-crash
Message-ID: <211@carroll1.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 89 18:33:20 GMT
Reply-To: tkopp@carroll1.UUCP (Tom Kopp)
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Organization: What? Me organized?
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Here at Carroll, the main student machine was an old Prime 750 that was
running rev-20 of Primos (forgot exact revision number).  Well, near the
end of a semester last year, there was a student who hadn't slept in a couple
of days and he was working on a terminal with nobody else around.  (over
in one of the other buildings).  Anyway, he fell asleep and his head was
pressing down on one of the arrow keys - he was in the window editor.

I was on duty in the center, which was very busy.  Everybody started to complain
that their terminals had frozen and they couldn't get any response.  I checked
the console and there was no halt message.  Someone who knew the machine better
came into the center and ran a usage report.  Seems the computer was kindly 
giving well over 90% of it's CPU time to the person asleep on his keyboard.
:) :) :)


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"Patience is a virtue, and I'm virtually bankrupt!" - Me
tkopp@carroll1.UUCP or uunet!marque!carroll1!tkopp
Thomas J. Kopp @ Carroll College 3B2 - Waukesha, WI