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Date: 10 May 1982 16:10-EDT
From: Alan Bawden <ALAN at MIT-MC>
Subject: From Jeff Shrager's plan file at CMU
To: INFO-COBOL at MIT-MC, SIPB at MIT-MC
A partial trace of a few cycles of MUMPS [Mutually Uncooperative Multi-
Processing System] execution. (Recreated from memory from datamation many
years ago.)
Processor Message
========= =======
A-12 I've got a problem.
D-25 Who's in charge here?!
L-83 What's today's date?
D-25 Who's doing disk IO?
X-14 The fifteenth I think.
A-12 I've got a problem!
M-32 Huh? What's the fifteenth?
B-15 Clear to send.
X-14 I wasn't talking to you!
A-12 Aha! Ready to recieve problem?
B-15 Clear to send.
A-12 Here's the problem.
D-25 Who cares?!
A-12 Stay out of this!
B-15 Clear to send.
A-12 Here's the data.
B-15 Clear to send.
A-12 What's the answer?
L-83 What time is it?
B-15 Clear to send.
A-12 Hey, where's my result?!
B-15 Clear to send.
A-12 What did you do with all the data I gave you?!?!
B-15 Clear to send.
A-12 S--t! Who's in charge here?
M-32 Who's doing disk IO?
X-14 08:15:62
A-12 Huh?
L-83 He wasn't talking to you...
M-32 I did disk IO yesterday.
L-83 Hey, what kind of time is that?!?!?
M-32 Why am I always stuck with disk IO?
B-15 Clear to send.
A-12 Shut up!