Wednesday, May 16, 2007

L.A. Confidential

1 comment:

Mark Brown said...

Neat, Your post points to itself, instead of the site. (also called recursion in programming

In the 80's we used to call that a
"deadly embrace", when two computers (mainframes) tried to grab the same disk pack (hard drive) at the same time. When that happenend, all hell broke loose, and we usually needed to reboot the mainframe (took several hrs to restore!)