jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR) (08/12/85)
This was spotted in net.micro..... > > Another inertia related problem occurred on some of the older timesharing > > systems (SDS 940 comes to mind). Programs would have a tendency to keep > > running after they were swapped out to the disc. Sometimes it was really > > tough to figure out what the program counter really should be when they > > were swapped back in! > > Tom Crawford > > Seriously now, the program counter was swapped out along with the memory > image and the value to set it to was read back in with the memory image. > That the program counter had changed along with the memory image was of > no consequence. I do remember one poor fellow who had a job swapped out > which had accumilated a lot of time and during this time the disk motor failed. > When the motor was repaired it was wired backwards and the disk ran backwards > This was done on a friday and the machine was left with the backward running > disk over the weekend until the problem was finally corrected the following > monday. When the disk was finally set straight the poor fellow has lost all > of his accumilated cpu time and the job restarted from nearly the beginning. This is nuttier than most of the stuff on net.bizarre. I'm envious! AMBAR {*ANYTHING*}!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand "I told you when I *MET* you that I was crazy, and you weren't listening!"