Nostalgic instruction sequences (Re: Python Productivity Gain?)

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

> From: Gordon Airport
> 
> > SETW 0 a9f4
> > G 0
> > 
> > anyone?  (memory said a9f0 first, corrected by google).
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > mwh
> 
> I used someting similar to his to hack Macintoshes in high 
> school: SM 0 
> a9f4, G 0, entered at the magic h4X0r prompt. I have no idea 
> what it's 
> actually doing, but you could bypass At Ease with it ;-)

Ah - I knew a9f4 was familiar. It was 'ExitToShell' (IIRC).

So you were setting memory location 0 to the address of 'ExitToShell' using Macsbug, then executing that function. The result was to kill the current application.

Fun stuff.

Tim Delaney