Date   : Mon, 12 Mar 1984 02:03:00-EST
From   : Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE@mit-mc>
Subject: Function 37

godalmighty dam.  i gather that anything short of perfection is
to be avoided; that if one cannot explain what's happening in a
hurricane you shouldn't warn anyone that it is coming.

your analysis is insteresting, but I do not know how to "change"
a hard disk, and I can assure you that fn 37 has managed to
write garbage all over the directory in two different hard disk
systems. by your logic I should not warn anyone about that since
I don't know why it does that.

i followed the discussion with some interest; reseting the write
vector seems to be the REAL name of the fn 37.  I hadn't known
that when I wrote my piece; indeed, i put the note about 37 on
the net at the same time that I turned in the article.

holy catfish