On 2017-04-27 7:44 PM, Steve Johnson wrote:
The worst "nuke the file system"
experience I had was on the GE
mainframe. Think big room, punched cards, etc. And an operators'
console that typed on paper...
When you booted the system, the first message that came up said:
INIT?
If you said 'y', it wiped out the file system.
After a very heated users' group meeting, they agreed to change the
message to
DO YOU WANT TO WIPE OUT THE FILE SYSTEM?
Good to know UX has always been terrible :-)
--T
Well golly gee whiz, the guy who wrote it knew what it was
going to do ... ( :-)
Arnold