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Computers Are Getting Too Complicated

jjung@aludra.usc.edu (John Jung)
(smirk, computers)

  Recently, USC said that they were taking four student time sharing systems
down to be "permanently decomissioned (turned off)". Being the curious (and
bored) sort, I decided to be on Nunki (one of the affected systems) as shut-off
time was near. At 12:45pm, I got the following message:

NUNKI down in 15 minutes at 13:00 for 2780 days and 10 hours for decomissioning

  Now I know that mainframes are complicated machines, but I didn't know that
they were so complicated that it took over seven and a half years to turn one
off...

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