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A 1970s magic trick: Take a card, any card, out of the deck and watch the IBM System/370 plunge into a death spiral

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Infinite loop

The marvel is that the infinite loop is at the root of modern GUIs: run forever, waiting for user input.

The biggest mistake became the biggest breakthrough.

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