I found one delivered by IBM sixteen years ago!

I installed MVS BASIC and when I ran the IVP on my 4381-3, it pegged
the CPU in about 3 seconds! It was looping so fast that even a FORCE
had no effect! IPL time!

Bob

--- Scott Courtney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 09 September 2002 01:48 pm, Phil Payne wrote:
> > Even easier.  Code a JOB that puts two copies of itself (with
> randomised
> > JOBNAMEs) into the internal reader.  We used to call this RABBITS,
> and the
> > 'RABBITS time' was a measure of JES2 efficiency - how long until
> the first SPOOL warning message?
>
> An acquaintance of mine did this to the University of Missouri
> mainframe when
> I was in college in the '80s. I remember thinking at the time how
> amazing it
> was that you could do something like this with only a student-level
> account.
>
> Scott

=====
Bob Richards
SunTrust Bank
Atlanta, Georgia
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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