Aeiss.288 net.jokes utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!eiss!jtb Fri Apr 2 10:43:05 1982 S U P E R B U G ! Look! -- in the core dump -- it's a byte -- it's a parity bit -- no, it's SUPERBUG!!!!! ! ! ! ! ! Yes, Superbug, strange visitor from another user, who came to this system with powers and abilities far beyond those of ordinary programs. Superbug - who can change the course of mighty programming projects, erase whole file systems with a bare machine, able to clear all of memory with a single instruction, And who, disguised as a shell file, a mild-mannered macro for a large metropolitan computing center, fights a never-ending battle against tests, assemblies, and the structured way. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.