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On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 07:32:01PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote: > > What WILL bring down the whole house..: > > my favorite was the one byte change to the switch code which took out a big > chunk of the country. Are you referring to the 4ESS SS7 cascade crash of several years back, Randy? I seem to recall that that was more than one character. Couple of lines. Now, there _was_ a one character problem in a FORTRTAN program that killed a space probe... The Neumann and Lee books are quite good references on this, albeit the Lee book is a touch sensational. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592
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