On 10/18/21 10:51 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > [ Warning: you need to be an OF to understand the references ] I guess I'm enough of an OF to understand and appreciate much of what's sed. At least I think so. > I don't think I've ever posted this here...  And trust me, an IBM 3090 > was really big iron in those days. I compared someone to Mel earlier today. They used an unimplemented I/O instruction as a delay. It reminded me of putting the next instruction at the sector that just passed the read / write head, thus causing a delay waiting for it to come all the way around again. > I don't recall the author, but I found it on the 'net. I don't remember the first place I saw VAXen my children... but I know that I have always appreciated it. I've even put a copy of it on my website. -- Grant. . . . unix || die