[comp.parallel] Poetic Justice in a Machine Crash

aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) (09/14/90)

Our Encore Multimax just crashed in a way that seems like poetic
justice:

    On the console terminal appeared a fragment of somebody's paper
about multiprocessor interconnection networks.  The last readable
sentence was:

    "...it is difficult to build shared memory procesors
    "
    "^%%^$#$%#%$#it is difficult to build shared memory$%#%$#it is difficult to 
    "build shared memory$%#%$#it is difficult to build shared memory$%#%$#it is 
    "difficult to build shared memory%^$%^$%^$@#$@!$@#$@difficult to build
    "shared memory$%#$%$%#$%shared memory%^$%^$%^ shared memory %&$%^^%$$%^%^$
    "shared memory&*^&*&*^&*^shared memory

...

Almost too good to be true :-)

(The screen garbage and control characters are not recorded verbatim).


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rick@goforit (Rick Chestek) (09/21/90)

Found on comp.parallel:

>Our Encore Multimax just crashed in a way that seems like poetic
>justice:
>
>    On the console terminal appeared a fragment of somebody's paper
>about multiprocessor interconnection networks.  The last readable
>sentence was:
>
>    "...it is difficult to build shared memory procesors
>    "
>    "^%%^$#$%#%$#it is difficult to build shared memory$%#%$#it is difficult to 
>    "build shared memory$%#%$#it is difficult to build shared memory$%#%$#it is 
>    "difficult to build shared memory%^$%^$%^$@#$@!$@#$@difficult to build
>    "shared memory$%#$%$%#$%shared memory%^$%^$%^ shared memory %&$%^^%$$%^%^$
>    "shared memory&*^&*&*^&*^shared memory
>
>...
>
>Almost too good to be true :-)
>
>(The screen garbage and control characters are not recorded verbatim).
>
>
>--
>Andy Glew, a-glew@uiuc.edu [get ph nameserver from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:net/qi]