Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site ctvax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ctvax!rob
From: rob@ctvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: A TRUE STORY - (nf)
Message-ID: <36700009@ctvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 4-Aug-84 13:37:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: ctvax.36700009
Posted: Sat Aug  4 13:37:00 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 6-Aug-84 06:59:34 EDT
References: <454@bunker.UUCP>
Lines: 20
Nf-ID: #R:bunker:-45400:ctvax:36700009:000:649
Nf-From: ctvax!rob    Aug  4 12:37:00 1984

#R:bunker:-45400:ctvax:36700009:000:649
ctvax!rob    Aug  4 12:37:00 1984

Long, long ago, I wrote some assembly language programs for
a data entry system. At one point in the code there was one
of those conditions where "the system could never get". 
You know, one of thos combinations of conditions where things
are so hopelessly messed up there is nothing to be done. The
system was being thrown together on such a tight schedule that
we didn't even have a fatal error routine. So at this infamous
location I wrote:

     HLT            ;WAITING FOR A GOOD IDEA

One of the guys installing the software called me one day and
said, "Rob, it's time for a good idea!"

(We added a fatal error routine.)

...convex!ctvax!rob