Xref: utzoo rec.humor:19198 rec.humor.d:1684 comp.misc:5241
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!rit!cci632!jbe
From: jbe@cci632.UUCP ( co-op)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <26557@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 89 14:44:19 GMT
References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> <532@geovision.UUCP> <4575@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM> <6255@saturn.ucsc.edu> <1232@raspail.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbe@ccird1.UUCP (Jim Beveridge - co-op)
Organization: CCI, Communications Systems Division, Rochester, NY
Lines: 22

In article <1232@raspail.UUCP> bga@raspail.UUCP (Bruce Albrecht) writes:
>
>When Grinnell College upgraded from a PDP 11/45 to an 11/70, the DEC field
>engineer finished the installation and booted the 11/70.  It started up, and
>15 seconds later, it promptly died.  He tried it again, and it failed again.
>He called up his superior, who thought about it for a few moments, asked him
>if he had removed the loopback plugs on all the serial interface boards.  It
>seems that RSTS/E sends out a message informing the users that the system is
>on its way up, and when the message was sent, the loopback plug turned it
>into a user input, to which the system sent a message 'input ignored.', 
>which also became user input ..., and the system died because it ran out of
>free buffers.

Seems that people never learn from their mistakes.  I had a version
of XENIX 286 crash for basically the same reason.  I had it hardwired
to a large UNIX system, but I booted up XENIX before I disabled the
getty on either system.  XENIX would send out "System Login: "
which UNIX would take as a username and send out "Password: " which
XENIX would take as the username, etc etc.  It took about ten seconds
for the XENIX system to come to a crashing halt.

			.. Jim ..