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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Entertaining bug for your enjoyment
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 10:00:31 GMT
Message-ID: <C8rFsw.L2B@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <1vm0r1$3su@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <CGD.93Jun16014108@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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In article <CGD.93Jun16014108@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
> one time, before we (the NetBSD folks) put a sync() right before all
> file closes in RCS, we crashed while tagging a while bunch of RCS
> files...

> we ended up with part of the source for the 'wumpus' game in an
> RCS file for one of the kernel NFS files.

Ack. When I was at Berkeley I asked why Lisp 1.5 hadn't been ported to V7 (or
some such thing... I just remember it had disappeared in an upgrade).

They showed me the source they had for Lisp 1.5: a bunch of PDP-11 assembly,
except right in the middle was this chunk of Pascal code from some J Random
game.

This is known as bit rot.
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