In <[email protected]>, on 04/13/2011
at 05:02 PM, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> said:
>While a Student at Illinois State University in Normal, I was told
>they had some program hogging the 3270 terminals saying it was the
>Cookie Monster and when someone typed in Cookie it shut down.
AFAIK the cookie monster was first implemented in Multics and didn't
hog the terminal. I told a class about it and one of the students
asked whether it was feasible in TSO, so I explained how[1] to do it
and installed it for April 1. As in the original, the response to
typing "cookie" was "thank you".
[1] Front end the TMP, as for the cookie in an STIMER exit.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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