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From: hobbit@sunybcs.UUCP (Thomas Pellitieri)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: System error message
Message-ID: <232@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 18:39:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 10 18:39:20 1984
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[ MUMPS ] 

A friend of mine who works with DSM-11 on a PDP 11/70 tells of one
system shutdown message which was almost incorporated into the system
by a programmer who was leaving the company.

Computer: Your entire data base is being destroyed.
          Is there anything else you would like to know? [Yes]

Operator: NO!!!

Computer: Okay!  The last thing to go will be the operating syst...

(This is somewhat funnier if you read the computer lines in a very
 optimistic tone, as per Eddie from the HHGTTG)

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				-The Parker Hobbit

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