On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Leonardo Sabino dos Santos <leonardo.sab...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to tell you about my experience with OpenBSD. > You would have loved an operating system called IMOS from NCR. They had a useful command that would delete files from a disk. If you forgot to mention which file ( by typing del<cr>) the system would proceed to delete each file on the disk. It would politely display each file name as it was deleted.
After the shock and the denial, one would scream at the data terminal, and then make a mad dash for the computer room where the processor panel required a sequence of buttons be pressed before it would reset. Of course this could only have happened at night when no one else was using the system, and the backups would not have been missing. I am trying to remember who this happened to, but it was a very long time ago and I can only recall a bitter struggle with nightmares that plagued me around that very same time. Hmm... I think I can even recall the button sequence on the processor..."<Halt>..<Reset>...<Compute>...<Compute>". Strange how that should be engraved in my memory after all the years that have past. Regards, Gerald.
