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From: "Michael Kjörling" <michael@kjorling.se>
To: coff@tuhs.org
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Monitoring by loudspeaker (was: BTL pranks)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 11:58:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <738ab925-586b-4921-b891-a4ec20348d4c@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202007120222.06C2MtdJ140032@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

(This should probably be on COFF because I don't think this has much
to do with UNIX.)


On 11 Jul 2020 22:22 -0400, from doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy):
> a loudspeaker hooked to the low-order bit of the accumulator played
> gentle white noise in the background. The noise would turn into a
> shriek when the computer got into a tight loop,

How did that work? I can see how tying the low-order bit of the
accumulator to a loudspeaker would generate white noise as the
computer is doing work; but I fail to see how doing so would even
somewhat reliably generate a shrieking sound when the computer is in a
tight loop. Please, enlighten me. :-)

-- 
Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael@kjorling.se
 “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-12 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-11  1:08 [TUHS] AT&T Research John P. Linderman
2020-07-11  1:32 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-11  1:51   ` John P. Linderman
2020-07-11 15:36 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-11 20:30   ` Warren Toomey
2020-07-11 20:36     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-07-11 21:58     ` Rob Pike
2020-07-11 22:29       ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-12  7:55         ` Ed Bradford
2020-07-12  2:22     ` [TUHS] BTL pranks [was AT&T Research] Doug McIlroy
2020-07-12 11:58       ` Michael Kjörling [this message]
2020-07-12 13:25         ` [TUHS] Monitoring by loudspeaker (was: BTL pranks) Dan Cross
2020-07-12 14:58         ` Robert Clausecker
2020-07-12 16:09           ` [TUHS] Monitoring by loudspeaker Al Kossow
2020-07-12 20:10             ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Rich Morin
2020-08-23  8:58           ` [TUHS] " Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2020-07-23  4:13     ` [TUHS] AT&T Research scj
2020-07-23  6:02       ` [TUHS] Technical decisions based on political considerations [was Re: AT&T Research] arnold
2020-07-23 14:42         ` Larry McVoy

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