Techie Invented Bits Of The Box He Was Fixing, Still Botched The Job
The Register, Monday, May 20th, 2024
Greetings and salutations, dear readers, and welcome to the sunny spot on the interwebs we like to call Who, Me? in which Reg readers share their tales of tech tasks gone awry.
Apologies if that bright, cheery attitude is off-putting to you. Your correspondent is experimenting with being a "Monday person" and it feels weird.
Anyway, our story this week comes from a reader we'll Regomize as "Howard" who many years ago (many, many years ago) worked with an OS kernel called MagicSix that found use in the labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while he was a student. Howard had tricked an Interdata 7/32 system to use virtual memory "in a way that its designers never intended" using the OS - such was his prowess.