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Classic WTF: The Bug That Shut Down Computers World-Wide – The Daily WTF

Classic WTF: The Bug That Shut Down Computers World-Wide – The Daily WTF:

One by one, processes in the Wang VS shut down and the computers grinded to a halt. Since boot time activity included the creation and deletion of temporary files, the operating system boot process could not complete. This effectively put ever single Wang VS computer in an unbootable state.

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