RE: Do Forever Loop

["Westdorp, Tom" <tom.westdorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IIRC they turned down INCKBDVLT as a hardware issue, something about the
plastic keycaps.  Damn shame, had they addressed more permanent keycaps as
part of their response the "W"'s might still be in place at the White House.

Tom Westdorp

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Jackson [mailto:richardjackson@richardjackson.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 8:13 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Do Forever Loop


Let's give credit to Robin Chakravarti for first proposing the "increase
keyboard voltage" and "terminate user" commands at a Common Conference in
the early 80s.  Terminate user had a parameter for user and a parameter for
degree.  Degree could be either *FAMILY (caused permanent sterility) or
*IMMED (left bleached bones in the chair).  These "requirements" caused some
problems for IBM since, at that time, they did not recognize that "joke"
requirements could exist.  They had to make a formal serious statement about
these requirements.  It was somewhat challenging for Doug Anderson to write
the reply.

Richard Jackson
(speaking only for myself)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Shaw, David
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 8:03 AM
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Do Forever Loop


Well, "halt" and "catch" both sound like verbs to me, so I thought it was an
instruction, not an error code.  Maybe 15 years on /38 and /400 have caused
me to attribute too much logic to such things. ;)

BTW, on the SETKBDVLT, I believe you left out *FRY and *CREMATE.

-----Original Message-----
From: booth@martinvt.com [mailto:booth@martinvt.com]

I thought HACF was an error message like FSTF (first smoke, then fire),
not an opcode.  Opcodes would include things like SETKBDVLT,  *OFF, *ON,
*STUN,  *TNGL, and *NEUTER


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Booth Martin
Booth@MartinVT.com
http://www.MartinVT.com
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"Shaw, David" <dshaw@spartan.com>
Sent by: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com
01/31/2001 11:09 AM
Please respond to RPG400-L


        To:     "'RPG400-L@midrange.com'" <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
        cc:
        Subject:        RE: Do Forever Loop
Barbara,

So why wasn't an HACF op-code in the survey?  I wouldn't think it would
cost
too many development bucks... ;)

Personally, I'd be more interested in a ZAPUSER op.

Dave Shaw
Spartan International, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC
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-----Original Message-----
From: bmorris@ca.ibm.com [mailto:bmorris@ca.ibm.com]

Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 15:13:08 -0800
From: "Cindy Hudson" <cindy_hudson@lifecare.to>

>What about just plain old LEAVE
>
>- -----Original Message-----
>>     Ok, get ready, break out ye olde RPG Reference and look up.....
>>     SHTDN
>>     Eric DeLong

Cindy, if you use LEAVE, you still need a way to decide whether to
LEAVE or not, like SHTDN which tells you whether the subsystem is
doing a controlled shutdown.

First time I saw "SHTDN", I assumed it was something like the
370 assembler instruction HACF (Halt And Catch Fire).  I was
rather disappointed to find out it was just a "checking" opcode.

Barbara Morris
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