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30 ago I worked at a place where we had a server room full of Sun boxes and a Symbolics Lisp Machine. The server room was a repurposed office to which some A/C

30 ago I worked at a place where we had a server room full of Sun boxes and a Symbolics Lisp Machine. The server room was a repurposed office to which some A/C had been retrofitted. On one occasion the machines started randomly glitching. The first clue that the A/C had failed was the Symbolics printing 'help I'm getting hot' (I paraphrase) to a console I was monitoring out in the main open plan.

Symbiote 7y ago
That reminds me of the "lp0 on fire" messages which some Unix/Linux systems can generate: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/tree/drivers/char/lp.c?h=v5.6.7#n239 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...