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Roy J. Tellason wrote:
  > I've been a tech for coming up on four decades now,  most of that 
time having
> my hands inside of the hardware of one sort or another,  and the earlier 
> stuff had vacuum tubes in it,  on up to current technology.
> 
> And I've *never* seen anything like what you describe here,  or heard of such 
> a thing either.
> 
You think YOU are suprised? Well, if you were to have open up a system 
to find the CPU in fragments, and between the fragments be a dust 
material of a similar composition as the CPU, I am pretty sure you would 
have been shocked and declared it disintegration.

No it couldn't be from electrical overload -- it had sat for a year 
without being used or pluggred in before this happened...

When it did work, though, I used to use it to play Zork II and 
Planetfall... ohh, and some 8k Missile Command clone. I also imaged out 
a Arkanoid disk (duct tape over the floppy HD hole, anyone? Instant 800k 
disk!)

-- 
The real problem with C++ for kernel modules is: the language just sucks.
	-- Linus Torvalds