From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] was turmoil, moving to rm -rf /
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 23:19:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201704280519.v3S5J1Uo025558@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b358586-4992-8769-bd54-2c9aeba6d8ba@telegraphics.com.au>
Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> On 2017-04-27 7:44 PM, Steve Johnson wrote:
> > The worst "nuke the file system" experience I had was on the GE
> > mainframe. Think big room, punched cards, etc. And an operators'
> > console that typed on paper...
> >
> > When you booted the system, the first message that came up said:
> >
> > INIT?
> >
> > If you said 'y', it wiped out the file system.
> >
> > After a very heated users' group meeting, they agreed to change the
> > message to
> >
> > DO YOU WANT TO WIPE OUT THE FILE SYSTEM?
>
>
> Good to know UX has always been terrible :-)
>
> --T
Well golly gee whiz, the guy who wrote it knew what it was
going to do ... ( :-)
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-28 5:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-24 22:06 [TUHS] There is turmoil in Linux-land - When did rm first avoid going upwards? Noel Chiappa
2017-04-24 22:18 ` Josh Good
2017-04-24 23:23 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-24 23:59 ` [TUHS] was turmoil, moving to rm -rf / Larry McVoy
2017-04-25 0:44 ` Dan Cross
2017-04-25 14:02 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-25 14:08 ` Larry McVoy
2017-04-25 14:12 ` Álvaro Jurado
2017-04-25 14:29 ` arnold
2017-04-25 14:31 ` Álvaro Jurado
2017-04-25 16:28 ` Pete Turnbull
2017-04-27 23:44 ` Steve Johnson
2017-04-27 23:54 ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-28 3:04 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-28 5:19 ` arnold [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.198.1493337336.3780.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-04-28 14:48 ` John Floren
2017-04-25 14:18 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-25 15:28 ` Dan Cross
2017-04-25 17:56 ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-25 14:19 ` Corey Lindsly
2017-04-25 0:06 ` [TUHS] There is turmoil in Linux-land - When did rm first avoid going upwards? Ron Natalie
2017-04-25 0:18 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-25 0:22 ` ron minnich
2017-04-25 0:24 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-25 0:26 ` ron minnich
[not found] <mailman.805.1493129956.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-04-25 15:17 ` [TUHS] was turmoil, moving to rm -rf / David
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