On 05/25/2016 07:22 PM, Paul Berger wrote: > Speaking of dumps I remember an engineer friend telling me that at > the university that he went to they had a CDC Cyber system and they > discovered that you could initiate a dump from any workstation, and > the system would dump out to the printer and while it was dumping the > whole system came to a halt.... guess what the students where fond > of doing...... It would seem to me that something like that should > have been more restricted.
At least in SCOPE and KRONOS, DMP was the command to dump memory--but if initiated from a user's control point, it would dump only the user's FL, not the whole system. So the story seems to be a bit apocryphal to me. Most university systems charged not only by the CPU second, but also by the number of lines printed and the number of cards punched. --Chuck
