dr37@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Joanna Bryson) (03/14/85)
perhaps this should be in bugs, but we found this serious enough to take Rog-O off our system. Maybe it's just u of c... Someone here had Rog-O-Matic on the computer science departments unix, with general access. We all enjoyed watching it eat our money, but then strangethings began happening. There were rumors that Rog-O games were floating around in the background on our system, eating solely cpu time and no money, but people could login to one and have it begin eating theirs. It turned out that if one turned off a terminal while Rog-O was playing, the game would continue playing on your account even though the unix logged you out. You could then log in and out without ever knowing about this job unless you happened to check your back- ground jobs. This happened to several people at a rather odd party where so many people were playing this and other high cpu games that the system stalled. Some people just shut off their terminals and went home, and wondered for several days where their money was going, untill one briliant individual found out. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of your machines? highly ammused if somewhat poorer--- Joanna