On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, Howard Jones wrote:
The good old days of absolutely shocking software testing...
e.g. the Ascend Max software build that never released IPs from the assigned
client IP pool - 200 user connections later, the helpdesk goes crazy. Or the
awesome Nortel Baystack bugs where pressing the "wrong" key in the "wrong"
menu would just crash the whole stack. Both in GA firmware. Nortel had a
whole selection of similar issues in their errata.
Reminds me of a bit of consulting I did way back on a SCO Unix server.
Being used to Linux, and curious what was in the /etc/hosts file, I
half-typed/half-tab completed "cat /etc/host" and hit enter, not noticing
that it'd stopped short of the s. The system immediately crashed / locked
up. Realizing, what I'd done, (on SCO, /etc/host is a binary), I expected
crap in my terminal...but not that the system should crash from that.
It's owner called SCO support, explained what happened, and was told it
was a known bug...and "would you like to buy the update that fixes it?"
WTF?!?
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