Gee! I thought the cookie monster was a puppet from Sesame Street... Oh, well...
I guess my points of reference will change as my kids grow. :-) Jostein Quoting danilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > from www.dictionary.com: > > /wab'it/ [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line > "You wascawwy wabbit!"] 1. A legendary early hack reported on > a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978; this may have > descended (if only by inspiration) from hack called RABBITS > reported from 1969 on a Burroughs 55000 at the University of > Washington Computer Center. The program would make two copies > of itself every time it was run, eventually crashing the > system. > > 2. By extension, any hack that includes infinite > self-replication but is not a virus or worm. See fork > bomb and rabbit job, see also cookie monster. > > > ciao > Danilo > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
