April fools for sure

On 07/04/2014, at 9:19 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:

> How would they display it? Aren't most *nix consoles simple ASCII-type 
> terminals?
> 
> Charles
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of John McKown
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 5:03 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: OT: How would you like _this_ as your "z/OS has hard waited" message?
> 
> The Linux developers are considering using QR codes to encode Kernel OOPS 
> (hard wait) information. Snap a picture of it on the old cell phone, then 
> decode it. It could encode a URL and debug data so that the user could open a 
> bug report using it. In our case, such a thing would need to come up on the 
> HMC.
> 
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