Reply to post: Re: The guiding principle

Yeah, we'll just take that first network handshake. What could possibly go wrong?

swm

Re: The guiding principle

When we were developing time sharing in the 1960's on a main frame we discovered a computer instruction that would hang the computer dead even in slave mode. On complaining we were told to run interpretive when we were about to run code with that computer instruction.

No amount of protesting worked until we started crashing their computers.

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