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In article <18888@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>There's a story that used to be told at the computer center at
>Caltech that the clock once broke on the PDP-10 ( that tells how
>old this story is ) that was used for most timesharing at 'Tech,
>and that no one figured out what was wrong for over a week.  The
>system seemed a bit more sluggish than usual, but otherwise
>worked ok.
  This has actually happened to our Encore Multimax a couple of times.  It
does make the system somewhat more sluggish.  More noticable, however, is
the fact that all the system daemons that are designed to sleep for a period
of time waiting for work *never* wake up again, which causes all sorts of
interesting problems....
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