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Re:This should never happen by vitd on Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:30PM (#11398924)
I saw one like this once. Back in the early 90s I was working at a computer lab at my university. We had just gotten in a 300MHz DEC alpha, and that thing was a screamer! It was so fast that X-windows didn't feel slow on it! (And this was in the day of 25-50Mhz 386s and 486s.)

I was compiling some tiny test program on it, and it spit out an error message that said something to the extent of "This shouldn't happen. Email Dave and tell him what you did - david<something>@digital.com." I ended up forwarding it to our IT department whom I assume sent it on to DEC. I don't know if Dave ever saw it or not, though.

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Re:This should never happen by FigmentEngine on Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:41PM (#11399029)
Dave Cutler?
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Re:This should never happen by vitd on Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:59PM (#11399156)
Could be. I never got to find out because, as I said, I sent it off to our IT department.
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Re:This should never happen by fit2rule on Thursday March 31, 2016 @03:16PM (#11399788)
I remember getting this message myself back in those days, on my brand-spanking new DEC Alpha, which shipped with a 'pre-beta' compiler to those of us who were avid recipients of DEC's first batch of Alpha workstations in anticipation of a strong porting effort to get away from the "MIPS situation" at the time .. heady days indeed!
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