For me I think it was the time we had a production stopping deadlock. I had never seen a real deadlock outside of the classroom. We were using SGI Indigo talking to a Celco film recorder. The Celco had a DR-11W interface but the interface card was an ISA bus, while the SGI was PCI, so there was a PCI to ISA conversion along the way. I examined a lot of code, and finally found a control register that was not correctly set. Changed just one bit, and the problem cleared.
Ten years later someone spotted my name badge at a trade show, and stopped me to ask if I was "that guy" that fixed the deadlock. Do I get a prize for the smallest change to code?
Ten years later someone spotted my name badge at a trade show, and stopped me to ask if I was "that guy" that fixed the deadlock. Do I get a prize for the smallest change to code?
