4 Dec
1998
4 Dec
'98
9:36 a.m.
"Bill Sudbrink" <bill(a)chipware.com> wrote:
When I was in high school (we had an HP 3000), if you
could hack MPE
and "steal" operator or supervisor privileges then, provided that you
didn't do anything terrible with them, you could keep them. And you
The community college I attended made sure that all the MPE manuals were
locked up, and had arranged for the local HP office to screen requests for
manuals and try really hard to avoid selling them to students. Lord knows
you wouldn't want students to actually learn how to use the system.
I suppose this was some sort of misguided attempt at security through
obscurity. We figured out how to do a lot of things we weren't supposed
to, but we certainly weren't able to learn enough about MPE for it to
be a marketable skill :-(
And to think that I actually paid real money for the priviledge of being
prevented from learning about the computer :-( :-(
Eric