Composing on paper, Green-bar, hardcopy output, card decks (L ong)

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Tue Jun 20 14:46:02 2000

>paper on the printer. Worst setup was MU Computer Sciences where you turned
>in the cards and got back output in 24 hours. Many times with message CPU
>time exceeded and no output.

Just set your job to run as class X. I forget the details, but our lazy
sysops used to set the "accumulators" to class X to clear jobs out of the
system or some sysop type reason. A few people found out, and when you ran
class X, boom you had 60% of the machine to yourself, no billing or time
limits.

OTOH writing ASM when the code barfed, a low time limit was a GOOD idea. I
remember one job just about killed a whole class account for the semester.
Received on Tue Jun 20 2000 - 14:46:02 BST