From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:146::1]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF33929D76 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:35:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51714428EA; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 05:35:49 +1000 (AEST) Received: from exhmta02.bpe.bigpond.com (exhmta02.bpe.bigpond.com [203.42.40.146]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5DF8F428E9 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 05:35:42 +1000 (AEST) Received: from exhprdcmr09 by exhprdomr02 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1rkqrd-0004ei-1o for tuhs@tuhs.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:35:40 +1100 Received: from [110.141.193.233] (helo=aneurin.horsfall.org) by exhprdcmr09 with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1rkqrc-000GTn-0e for tuhs@tuhs.org; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:35:40 +1100 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 42EJON5Y008602 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:24:23 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 42EJONpT008599 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:24:23 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:24:23 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-tce-ares-id: e{0e5fe2a6-b2bc-4120-8e9d-8bc077c53ac4}1 X-tce-spam-action: no action X-tce-spam-score: 0.0 X-Cm-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=ZOTRm27b c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=65f3518c a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:117 a=tp40vz5QK/dVXQmd7GLw7w==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=K6JAEmCyrfEA:10 a=ozQi6Qy7AAAA:8 a=Qho8EBCM23Eo52VNzaUA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=5011TGWGUjXZ4oUQxJtK:22 X-Cm-Envelope: MS4xfLuYGzBokYiAukkdRXPS60fRGsaZSumLF6NHJun2tOQ8Qvb0dmG2ezBa4x1o8Xii/PhcxwpJ2wN3ExXxUFpiQxmc74MxHTLayOhJ7nHQl1tZHOwsLdOb xQDtD+/DHBGXurZF5t2BzT1JxRsBPaOsB1Vz0nJAtpskQhi8zujSC1En Message-ID-Hash: TEETTPGPFKVRIF4GZNB32CKY2BI4ZH2G X-Message-ID-Hash: TEETTPGPFKVRIF4GZNB32CKY2BI4ZH2G X-MailFrom: dave@horsfall.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: early unix rand List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, Clem Cole wrote: > Prof Kahan's Floating Point Test Program - the original from his and his > students in his computer arithmetic seminar wrote during my days at UCB: > https://www.netlib.org/paranoia/ I remember that well; it crashed a colleague's Xenix box... -- Dave