It didn’t clear the return code. In mainframe jobs, successful executions are expected to return zero (in the machine R15 register).
So in this case fixing the bug required to add an instruction instead of removing one.
Amberskin
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Just to boast my old timer credentials.
There is an utility program in IBM’s mainframe operating system, z/OS, that has been there since the 60s.
It has just one assembly code instruction: a BR 14, which means basically ‘return’.
The first version was bugged and IBM had to issue a PTF (patch) to fix it.
Nah, they just recompiled the old MS-DOS editor. Next they will announce a BASIC interpreter and will call it WBasic.
The EU will not tax products which are critical for the European economy until/unless there is a viable local alternative.
What I expect the EU to do is to subsidise those fledging local alternatives. And yes, this is against WTO rules, but I guess nobody cares about that anymore.
No other world leader should accept an invite to the WH. Right now it’s 100% an ambush.
The budgie is a so sweet bird he has gained my little murderbird heart
Luigi should get a medal and a statue.
Cannot be done.
Just ban algorithmic weighing in social networks.
No ‘recommended for you’. No ‘you may be interested in’. Just a chronological timeline, a subscription/following feature and a search function.
I’m a boomer and I approve this.
I block people liberally. I agree 100% with the comic. And blocking idiots is good for my health.
‘Gym’ Jordan, FFS…
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Stargate Universe.
They killed it when the show just had caught steam.