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Reminds me of (Score:2)

by htoug (771)

a young luser we had at the university where i studied.
He had just discovered 'fork' (or its equivalent on a Univac 1108) and in his youthfull glee made a program that did a fork and exec'ed an instance of itself in each process.
They had to boot the machine, with all its 5-600 users to turn it off. After it came online he did it again, just to see if that really was the cause.
Mightily unpopular he was...
- Re:Reminds me of (Score:1)
  
  by Beatnik (493)
  
  This was all accidental, I swear :)

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