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3 THE HACKER TEST - Version 1.0
3 Preface:  06.16.89
3
1 This test  was conceived  and written  by Felix  Lee, John  Hayes and  Angela
1 Thomas at the  end of the  spring semester, 1989.   It has gone  through many
1 revisions prior to this initial release, and will undoubtedly go through many
1 more.
2     ਤ㬠   ᠭ  Felix Lee,  John Hayes   Angela Thomas 
2  ᥭ ᥬ 1989 .   襫 襫 १   ᬮ஢
2  ⮣ ࢮ砫쭮 ᪠  ᮬ ன .
1 (Herewith  a  compendium  of  fact  and  folklore  about  computer hackerdom,
1 cunningly disguised as a test.)
2   ᮡ࠭  䠪    䮫쪫    ୮  堪⢥     㬭
2 ᪨஢  .
1 If you score is between:                    You are
2 ᫨   c :                
3 0x000 and 0x010       ->         Computer Illiterate 
3 0x011 and 0x040       ->         a User              짮⥫
3 0x041 and 0x080       ->         an Operator         
3 0x081 and 0x0C0       ->         a Nerd              ࠥ
3 0x0C1 and 0x100       ->         a Hacker             (堪p)
3 0x101 and 0x180       ->         a Guru              
3 0x181 and 0x200       ->         a Wizard            襡
3
1 Note: If you don't understand the scoring, stop here.
2 ᫨    , ⠭  !!!!
3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 And now for the questions... (please answer "y" /yes/ or "n" /no/)
1
2   ᮢ ... (c ⢥砩 "y" /yes/  "n" /no/)
2
4 Have you ever used a computer?
5 ᯮ짮   - ?
3
4 ... for more than 4 hours continuously?
5   4 ᮢ 뢭?
3
4 ... more than 8 hours?
5    8?
3
4 ... more than 16 hours?
5   16?
3
4 ... more than 32 hours?
5   32?
3
4 Have you ever patched paper tape?
5 ࠢ﫨   䮫?
3
4 Have you ever missed a class while programming?
5 ய᪠    - ணࠬ஢?
3
4 ... Missed an examination?
5  ?
3
4 ... Missed a wedding?
5  ᢠ?
3
4 ... Missed your own wedding?
5  ᮡ⢥ ᢠ?
3
4 Have you ever programmed while intoxicated?
5 ணࠬ஢    ﭮ ?
3
4 ... Did it make sense the next day?
5    cc  ᫥騩 ?
3
4 Have you ever written a flight simulator?
5 ᠫ     (flight simulator)?
3
4 Have you ever voided the warranty on your equipment?
5 ⨫   ࠭⨩  ᢮ 㤮?
3
4 Ever change the value of 4?
5 﫨   祭 4?
3
4 ... Unintentionally?
5  諥?
3
4 ... In a language other than Fortran?
5    몥, ஬ Fortran?
3
4 Do you use DWIM to make life interesting?
5 ᯮ   DWIM  ⮣, ⮡ ᤥ  ᭮?
3
4 Have you named a computer?
5     ?
3
4 Do you complain when a "feature" you use gets fixed?
2   ,  "ᮡ" ணࠬ,   ᯮ,
5 ࠢ  c饩 pc?
3
4 Do you eat slime-molds?
5    slime-molds? ( p)
3
4 Do you know how many days old you are?
5   , ᪮쪮  ?
3
4 Have you ever wanted to download pizza?
2 ⥫   -     c裡 
5 (to download pizza)? 
3
4 Have you ever invented a computer joke?
5 ⠫   -  ?
3
4 ... Did someone not 'get' it?
5 襫   ,    ?
3
4 Can you recite Jabberwocky?
5     -⮣᪨?
3
4 ... Backwards?
5   ।?
3
4 Have you seen "Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land"?
5 ५   "줠   ⥬᪮ ࠭"?
3
4 Have you seen "Tron"?
5    "Tron"?
3
4 Have you seen "Wargames"?
5    "Wargames"?
3
4 Do you know what ASCII stands for?
5   ,  ஢뢠 ASCII?
3
4 ... EBCDIC?
5  EBCDIC?
3
4 Can you read and write ASCII in hex or octal?
5        ASCII  16-筮  8-筮 ?
3
4 Do you know the names of all the ASCII control codes
5      ࠢ   ASCII?
3
4 Can you read and write EBCDIC in hex?
5        EBCDIC  16-筮?
3
4 Can you convert from EBCDIC to ASCII and vice versa?
5    ८ࠧ뢠  EBCDIC  ASCII  ?
3
4 Do you know what characters are the same in both ASCII and EBCDIC?
5   ,  ᨬ ᮢ  ASCII  EBCDIC?
3
4 Do you know maxint on your system?
5    ᨬ쭮 楫  襩 ⥬?
3
4 Ever define your own numerical type to get better precision?
5 ।﫨    c ᫥ ⨯  襩 筮?
3
4 Can you name powers of two up to 2**16 in arbitrary order?
5     ⥯ 2  2**16  ந쭮 浪?
3
4 ... up to 2**32?
5   2**32?
3
4 ... up to 2**64?
5   2**64?
3
4 Can you read a punched card, looking at the holes?
5     䮪, ᬮ  ન?
3
4 ... feeling the holes?
5 ...  ન  ?
3
4 Have you ever patched binary code?
5 ࠢ﫨    ?
3
4 ... While the program was running?
5   室 ࠡ ணࠬ?
3
4 Have you ever used program overlays?
5 ᯮ짮   ணࠬ ૥?
3
4 Have you met any IBM vice-president?
5 砫   - -१ IBM?
3
4 Do you know Dennis, Bill, or Ken?
5    ,   ? (Dennis, Bill, or Ken)?
3
4 Have you ever taken a picture of a CRT?
5 ⮣஢   p?
3
4 Have you ever played a videotape on your CRT?
5 ந뢠   - 䨫  ᢮ p?
3
4 Have you ever digitized a picture?
5 ஢뢠   ⨭?
3
4 Did you ever forget to mount a scratch monkey?
2 뢠   - c⠭ c (㦭) ﭪ?
5 (p     srcatch monkey  Hacker's Jargon)
3
4 Have you ever optimized an idle loop?
5 ⨬஢   ⮩ 横?
3
4 Did you ever optimize a bubble sort?
5 ⨬஢   쪮 ஢?
3
4 Does your terminal/computer talk to you?
5      ନ  ?
3
4 Have you ever talked into an acoustic modem?
5 ਫ    ᪨ ?
3
4 ... Did it answer?
5 ... ⢥砫   ?
3
4 Can you whistle 300 baud?
5    ᢨ  300 ?
3
4 ... 1200 baud?
5   1200 ?
3
4 Can you whistle a telephone number?
5    ᢨ  ⥫䮭?
3
4 Have you witnessed a disk crash?
5 뫨   ᢨ⥫ 襣 ᪠?
3
4 Have you made a disk drive "walk"?
5   ,  "室" ᪮?
3
4 Can you build a puffer train?
5    ந   puffer train? ( p)
3
4 ... Do you know what it is?
5   ,   ⠪?
3
4 Can you play music on your line printer?
5       ᢮ 筮 ਭ?
3
4 ... Your disk drive?
5   ᪮?
3
4 ... Your tape drive?
5   筮 ன⢥?
3
4 Do you have a Snoopy calendar?
5     㯨 (Snoopy)?
3
4 ... Is it out-of-date?
5  祭?
3
4 Do you have a line printer picture?
5    ⨭, ᤥ  筮 ਭ?
3
4 ... of the Mona Lisa?
5   ?
3
4 ... the Enterprise?
5 ࠩ?
3
4 ... Einstein?
5  ⥩?
3
4 ... Oliver?
5  ?
3
4 Have you ever made a line printer picture?
5    ⨭  筮 ਭ?
3
1 Do you know what the following stand for?
2   ,  ஢뢠:
3
6 ... DASD
3
6 ... Emacs
3
6 ... ITS
3
6 ... RSTS/E
3
6 ... SNA
3
6 ... Spool
3
6 ... TCP/IP
3
1 Have you ever used:
2 ᯮ짮  :
3
6 ... TPU?
3
6 ... TECO?
3
6 ... Emacs?
3
6 ... ed?
3
6 ... vi?
3
6 ... Xedit (in VM/CMS)?
3
6 ... SOS?
3
6 ... EDT?
3
6 ... Wordstar?
3
4 Have you ever written a CLIST?
5 ᠫ   - CLIST? ( TSO)
3
4 Have you ever programmed in the X windowing system?
5 ணࠬ஢    cc⥬ X-window?
3
4 ... CICS?
5   CICS?
3
4 Have you ever received a Fax or a photocopy of a floppy?
5 砫   ⥫䠪  ⮪ 䫮-᪠?
3
4 Have you ever shown a novice the "any" key?
5 뢠    ""  ("any" key)?
3
4 ... Was it the power switch?
5    몫⥫ ⠭?
3
1 Have you ever attended:
2 c⢮   :
3
6 ... Usenix?
3
6 ... DECUS?
3
6 ... SHARE?
3
6 ... SIGGRAPH?
3
6 ... NetCon?
3
4 Have you ever participated in a standards group?
5 ⢮    㯯  ⠭⠬?
3
4 Have you ever debugged machine code over the telephone?
5 ⫠   設   ⥫䮭?
3
4 Have you ever seen voice mail?
5    ᮢ ?
3
4 ... Can you read it?
5     ?
3
4 Do you solve word puzzles with an on-line dictionary?
5 蠫      ୮ ᫮?
3
4 Have you ever taken a Turing test?
5 室    ਭ?
3
4 ... Did you fail?
5 ௥   㤠?
3
4 Ever drop a card deck?
5 﫨    䮪?
3
4 ... Did you successfully put it back together?
5 뢠    ⭮  㦭 浪?
3
4 ... Without looking?
5   ?
3
4 Have you ever used IPCS?
5 ᯮ짮     IPCS?
3
4 Have you ever received a case of beer with your computer?
5 砫   騪    ᢮ ஬?
3
4 Does your computer come in 'designer' colors?
5      梥 ஥஢騪?
3
4 Ever interrupted a UPS?
5 뢠   UPS?
3
4 Ever mask an NMI?
5 ᪨஢  NMI?
3
4 Have you ever set off a Halon system?
5 c   ⥬ Halon (cc⥬ ⮬c p襭)?
3
4 ... Intentionally?
5  諥?
3
4 ... Do you still work there?
5     ⠬ ࠡ⠥?
3
4 Have you ever hit the emergency power switch?
5    -  ਩ 몫⥫ ⠭?
3
4 ... Intentionally?
5  諥?
3
4 Do you have any defunct documentation?
5    㬥  cc⥬, p 㦥  cc?
3
4 ... Do you still read it?
5 ⠥   ?
3
4 Ever reverse-engineer or decompile a program?
5 ஢   ணࠬ?
3
4 ... Did you find bugs in it?
5 ...  室    訡?
3
4 Ever help the person behind the counter with their terminal/computer?
5    த   ஬?
3
4 Ever tried rack mounting your telephone?
5 ⠫   ⠭  ⮩  ⥫䮭?
3
4 Ever thrown a computer from more than two stories high?
5 ᠫ       2 ⠦?
3
4 Ever patched a bug the vendor does not acknowledge?
5 ࠢ﫨   訡,  ਧ ⮢⥫?
3
4 Ever fix a hardware problem in software?
2 ࠢ﫨   ஡     ணࠬ
5 ᯥ祭?
3
4 ... Vice versa?
5  ?
3
4 Ever belong to a user/support group?
5 ਭ    㯯 짮⥫᪮ প?
3
4 Ever been mentioned in Computer Recreations?
5     Computer Recreations?
3
4 Ever had your activities mentioned in the newspaper?
5      ?
3
4 ... Did you get away with it?
5  ⢥ 㤠?
3
4 Ever engage a drum brake while the drum was spinning?
5 砫   ମ ࠡ,   頥?
3
4 Ever write comments in a non-native language?
5 ᠫ   ਨ  த 몥?
3
4 Ever physically destroy equipment from software?
5 ⮦   䨧᪨ 㤮 ணࠬ?
3
4 Ever tried to improve your score on the Hacker Test?
5 ⠫   㢥 ᢮   ⮬  (Hacker Test)?
3
4 Do you take listings with you to lunch?
5    ᯥ⪨  ᮡ  ?
3
4 ... To bed?
5   ஢?
3
4 Ever patch a microcode bug?
5 ࠢ﫨   訡  ப?
3
4 ... around a microcode bug?
5 室   訡  ப?
3
4 Can you program a Turing machine?
5    ணࠬ஢  設 ਭ?
3
4 Can you convert postfix to prefix in your head?
5     㬥 ॢ 䨪  䨪?
3
4 Can you convert hex to octal in your head?
5     㬥 ॢ 16-  8-?
3
4 Do you know how to use a Kleene star?
5   ,  ᯮ짮 Kleene star?
3
4 Have you ever starved while dining with philosophers?
5 ࠫ    ,   䨫䠬?
3
4 Have you solved the halting problem?
5 蠫   ஡ ᠭ (halting)?
3
4 ... Correctly?
5 ४⭮?
3
4 Ever deadlock trying eating spaghetti?
5     㯨   ᯠ?
3
4 Ever written a self-reproducing program?
5 ᠫ   ᠬநc ணࠬ?
3
4 Ever swapped out the swapper?
5 p﫨   c c?
3
4 Can you read a state diagram?
5     ࠬ ﭨ (state diagram)?
3
4 ... Do you need one?
5 㦭   ?
3
4 Ever create an unkillable program?
5    㭨⮦ ணࠬ?
3
4 ... Intentionally?
5  諥?
3
4 Ever been asked for a cookie?
5 ᨫ    祭 (cookie)?
3
4 Ever speed up a system by removing a jumper?
5 ᪮﫨   ⥬, ࠢ  (jumper)?
3
1 * Do you know...
2     
3
4 Do you know who wrote Rogue?
5  ᠫ Rogue?
3
4 ... Rogomatic?
5 Rogomatic?
3
4 Do you know Gray code?
5  ?
3
4 Do you know what HCF means?
5  砥 HCF?
3
4 ... Ever use it?
5 ᯮ짮   ?
3
4 ... Intentionally?
5 諥?
3
4 Do you know what a lace card is?
5   ,  ⠪   ᥬ ஡묨 ⢥ﬨ (lace card)?
3
4 ... Ever make one?
5 ...    ?
3
4 Do you know the end of the epoch?
5     ?
3
4 ... Have you celebrated the end of an epoch?
5 ࠧ   ?
3
4 ... Did you have to rewrite code?
5 室   ९뢠 ?
3
4 Do you know the difference between DTE and DCE?
5    ࠧ  DTE  DCE?
3
4 Do you know the RS-232C pinout?
5    ࠧ 쪮 RS-232C?
3
4 ... Can you wire a connector without looking?
5    ᮥ ,  ?
3
1 * Do you have...
2     ...
3
4 Do you have a copy of Dec Wars?
5  Dec Wars?
3
4 Do you have the Canonical Collection of Lightbulb Jokes?
5 ᪠  ⮪ 窨 (Lightbulb Jokes)?
3
4 Do you have a copy of the Hacker's dictionary?
5  ᫮ 堪p (Hacker's dictionary)?
3
4 ... Did you contribute to it?
5 ...     ଠ  ?
3
4 Do you have a flowchart template?
5     蠡  ᮢ -奬?
3
4 ... Is it unused?
5   ᯮ?
3
4 Do you have your own fortune-cookie file?
2     ᢮ 䠩 ᮮ饭, 뤠  砫 /   
5 ᥠ (fortune-cookie)?
3
4 Do you have the Anarchist's Cookbook?
5     ७   (Anarchist Cookbook)?
3
4 ... Ever make anything from it?
5    -  ?
3
4 Do you own a modem?
5 ਭ   ?
3
4 ... a terminal?
5 ... ନ?
3
4 ... a toy computer?
5 ... ஢ ?
3
4 ... a personal computer?
5 ... ᮭ ?
3
4 ... a minicomputer?
5 ... ?
3
4 ... a mainframe?
5 ... 让 ?
3
4 ... a supercomputer?
5 ... c㯥મ?
3
4 ... a hypercube?
5 ... -?
3
4 ... a printer?
5 ... ਭ?
3
4 ... a laser printer?
5 ...  ਭ?
3
4 ... a tape drive?
5 ... ⥫  ⭮ ?
3
4 ... an outmoded peripheral device?
5 ॢ ?
3
4 Do you have a programmable calculator?
5    ணࠬ㥬 ?
3
4 ... Is it RPN?
5  p⠥  p⭮ c 樨 ?
3
4 Have you ever owned more than 1 computer?
5 ਭ   , 祬 1 ?
3
4 ... 4 computers?
5 ... a  4 ஢?
3
4 ... 16 computers?
5 ...  16 ஢?
3
4 Do you have a SLIP line?
5      SLIP?
3
4 ... a T1 line?
5      T1?
3
4 Do you have a separate phone line for your terminal/computer?
2     ⤥쭠 ⥫䮭   襣 ନ/
5 ?
3
4 ... Is it legal?
5  ?
3
4 Do you have core memory?
5       ⮢ थ筨?
3
4 ... drum storage?
5   ࠡ?
3
4 ... bubble memory?
5   樫᪨  ?
3
4 Do you use more than 16 megabytes of disk space?
5 ᯮ    16 . ᪮ ࠭⢠?
3
4 ... 256 megabytes?
5   256 .
3
4 ... 1 gigabyte?
5   1 ?
3
4 ... 16 gigabytes?
5   16 ?
3
4 ... 256 gigabytes?
5   256 ?
3
4 ... 1 terabyte?
5   1 ?
3
4 Do you have an optical disk / disk drive?
5     ᪨  / ᪮?
3
4 Do you have a personal magnetic tape library?
5     筠 ⥪  ?
3
4 ... Is it unlabelled?
5 ...  -  ⮪?
3
4 Do you own more than 16 floppy disks?
5 ਭ    16  ᪮?
3
4 ... 64 floppy disks?
5 ...  64  ᪮?
3
4 ... 256 floppy disks?
5 ...  256  ᪮?
3
4 ... 1024 floppy disks?
5 ...  1024  ᪮?
3
4 Do you have any 8-inch disks?
5     8- ᪨?
3
4 Do you have an internal stack?
5     ७ ⥪ (internal stack)?
3
4 Do you have a clock interrupt?
5     ᮢ 뢠 (clock interrupt)?
3
4 Do you own volumes 1 to 3 of _The Art of Computer Programming_?
5     ⮬  1  3 "⢮ ணࠬ஢   ?"
3
4 ... Have you done all the exercises?
5 ... 믮    ࠦ?
3
4 ... Do you have a MIX simulator?
5 ...      MIX?
3
4 ... Can you name the unwritten volumes?
5 ...     ᠭ ⮬?
3
4 Can you quote from _The Mythical Man-month_?
5    ஢  "᪮ 祫-"?
3
4 ... Did you participate in the OS/360 project?
5 ⢮    ஥ OS/360?
3
4 Do you have a TTL handbook?
5     㪮⢮  ?
3
4 Do you have printouts more than three years old?
5     ᯥ⪨  祬 嫥⭥ ?
3
1 * Career
2 * 
3
4 Do you have a job?
5     ࠡ?
3
4 ... Have you ever had a job?
5 ... - 뫠?
3
4 ... Was it computer-related?
5 ... 뫠   易  ࠬ?
3
4 Do you work irregular hours?
5    ନ஢ ࠡ祥 ६ ?
3
4 Have you ever been a system administrator?
5 뫨   - ⥬ ஬?
3
4 Do you have more megabytes than megabucks?
5     , 祬 ஢?
3
4 Have you ever downgraded your job to upgrade your processing power?
2 室   -  ࠡ    ⮩  㯠
5    ࠬ?
3
4 Is your job secure?
5  ࠡ ?
3
4 ... Do you have code to prove it?
5      , 뢠騩 ?
3
4 Have you ever had a security clearance?
5 砫     ᥪ ࠡ⠬?
3
1 * Games
2   
3
4 Have you ever played Pong?
5 ࠫ    ?
3
1 Have you ever played
2 ࠫ   
3
6 ... Spacewar?
3
6 ... Star Trek?
3
6 ... Wumpus?
3
6 ... Lunar Lander?
3
6 ... Empire?
3
1 Have you ever beaten
2     p
3
6 ... Moria 4.8?
3
6 ... Rogue 3.6?
3
6 ... Rogue 5.3?
3
6 ... Larn?
3
6 ... Hack 1.0.3?
3
6 ... Nethack 2.4?
3
4 Can you get a better score on Rogue than Rogomatic?
5      Rogue 訩 , 祬 Rogomatic?
3
4 Have you ever solved Adventure?
5 諨   Adventure (ਪ祭)?
3
4 ... Zork?
5 ... Zork?
3
4 Have you ever written any redcode?
5 ᠫ   ppp ?
3
4 Have you ever written an adventure program?
5 ᠫ   ணࠬ ਪ祭 (adventure program)?
3
4 ... a real-time game?
5 ...   ॠ쭮 ⠡ ६?
3
4 ... a multi-player game?
5 ...   ᪮쪨 ப?
3
4 ... a networked game?
5 ... ⥢ ?
3
4 Can you out-doctor Eliza?
5    २   ?
3
1 * Hardware
2   
3
4 Have you ever used a light pen?
5 ᯮ짮   ᢥ⮢ ?
3
4 ... did you build it?
5 ...     ᠬ?
3
1 Have you ever used
2 ᯮ짮   -:
3
4 ... a teletype?
5 ⥫⠩?
3
4 ... a paper tape?
5 䮫?
3
4 ... a decwriter?
5 p pp?
3
4 ... a card reader/punch?
5 䮪筮 ன⢮ /뢮?
3
4 ... a SOL?
5 SOL?
3
1 Have you ever built
2 ࠫ  :
3
4 ... an Altair?
5 ⠨?
3
4 ... a Heath/Zenith computer?
5  Heath/Zenith?
3
1 Do you know how to use
2   ,  ᯮ짮
3
4 ... an oscilliscope?
5 樫?
3
4 ... a voltmeter?
5 ⬥?
3
4 ... a frequency counter?
5 ⮬?
3
4 ... a logic probe?
5 ᪨ ஡?
3
4 ... a wirewrap tool?
5 ⠭  ⪨ 襪?
3
4 ... a soldering iron?
5 쭨?
3
4 ... a logic analyzer?
5 ᪨ ?
3
4 Have you ever designed an LSI chip?
5 ஥஢   ⠫  (LSI)?
3
4 ... has it been fabricated?
5    ॠ?
3
4 Have you ever etched a printed circuit board?
5 ࠢ    ?
3
1 * Historical
2 * ᪨
3
4 Have you ever toggled in boot code on the front panel?
5 ᨫ   㧮    ࠢ ?
3
4 ... from memory?
5 ...  ?
3
4 Can you program an Eniac?
5    ணࠬ஢  ?
3
4 Ever seen a 90 column card?
5    䮪  90 ⮫殢?
3
1 * IBM
2 * 
3
4 Do you recite IBM part numbers in your sleep?
5     ᭥  ⥩ ?
3
4 Do you know what IBM part number 7320154 is?
5   ,  ⠪   7320154?
3
4 Do you understand 3270 data streams?
5    ⮪  3270?
3
4 Do you know what the VM privilege classes are?
5   ,  ⠪  ਢ  (VM privilege classes)?
3
4 Have you IPLed an IBM off the tape drive?
5 IPL   IBM  ⭮ ?
3
4 ... off a card reader?
5 ...  cpc⢠ 뢠 䮪?
3
4 Can you sing something from the IBM Songbook?
5    ᯥ -   ᥭ ?
3
1 * Languages
2   모
3
4 Do you know more than 4 programming languages?
5     4 몮 ணࠬ஢?
3
4 ... 8 languages?
5  8 몮 ணࠬ஢?
3
4 ... 16 languages?
5  16 몮 ணࠬ஢?
3
4 ... 32 languages?
5  32 몮 ணࠬ஢?
3
4 Have you ever designed a programming language?
5 ஥஢    ணࠬ஢?
3
4 Do you know what Basic stands for?
5   ,  ஢뢠 ᨪ?
3
4 ... Pascal?
5 ᪠?
3
4 Can you program in Basic?
5    ணࠬ஢  ᨪ?
3
4 ... Do you admit it?
5 ...     ⮬ ?
3
4 Can you program in Cobol?
5    ணࠬ஢  ?
3
4 ... Do you deny it?
5 ... 栥   ?
3
4 Do you know Pascal?
5    ᪠?
3
4 ... Modula-2?
5 ... -2?
3
4 ... Oberon?
5 ... ஭?
3
4 ... More that two Wirth languages?
5 ...  2- 몮 ?
3
4 ... Can you recite a Nicklaus Wirth joke?
5    ஢  ?
3
4 Do you know Algol-60?
5    -60?
3
4 ... Algol-W?
5 ... -W?
3
4 ... Algol-68?
5 ... -68?
3
4 ... Do you understand the Algol-68 report?
5     -68?
3
4 ... Do you like two-level grammars?
5 ࠢ   2- ஢ ࠬ⨪?
3
4 Can you program in assembler on 2 different machines?
2    ணࠬ஢  ᥬ  2 ࠧ
5 設?
3
4 ... on 4 different machines?
5  4 ࠧ 設?
3
4 ... on 8 different machines?
5  8 ࠧ 設?
3
1 Do you know
2   
3
6 ... APL?
3
6 ... Ada?
3
6 ... BCPL?
3
6 ... C?
3
6 ... C++?
3
6 ... Comal?
3
6 ... Eiffel?
3
6 ... Forth?
3
6 ... Fortran?
3
6 ... Hypertalk?
3
6 ... Icon?
3
6 ... Lisp?
3
6 ... Logo?
3
6 ... MIIS?
3
6 ... MUMPS?
3
6 ... PL/I?
3
6 ... Pilot?
3
6 ... Plato?
3
6 ... Prolog?
3
6 ... RPG?
3
6 ... Rexx (or ARexx)?
3
6 ... SETL?
3
6 ... Smalltalk?
3
6 ... Snobol?
3
6 ... VHDL?
3
4 ... any assembly language?
5     - ᥬ?
3
4 Can you talk VT-100?
5      VT-100?
3
4 ... Postscript?
5 ...  ਯ-?
3
4 ... SMTP?
5  SMTP?
3
4 ... UUCP?
5  UUCP?
3
4 ... English?
5 -᪨?
3
1 * Micros
2   
3
4 Ever copy a copy-protected disk?
5 ஢   , 饭  ஢?
3
4 Ever create a copy-protection scheme?
5    奬   ஢?
3
4 Have you ever made a "flippy" disk?
2    ⥫ १, ⮡ ᯮ짮 
5 SS ᪥  DS ( "flippy" disk)?
3
4 Have you ever recovered data from a damaged disk?
5 ⠭     ० ᪠?
3
4 Ever boot a naked floppy?
5 㧨    ᪠  ?
3
1 * Networking
2 * 
3
4 Have you ever been logged in to two different timezones at once?
5 뫨   祭  2- ࠧ ६  ६?
3
4 Have you memorized the UUCP map for your country?
5     UUCP  襩 ࠭?
3
4 ... For any country?
5  - ࠭?
3
4 Have you ever found a sendmail bug?
5 室   訡  sendmail?
3
4 ... Was it a security hole?
5 ...    "ப"  cc⥬ ᭮?
3
4 Have you memorized the HOSTS.TXT table?
5    ⠡ HOSTS.TXT?
3
4 ... Are you up to date?
5       ५?
3
4 Can you name all the top-level nameservers and their addresses?
2      孥஢ 㦨⥫  
5  ?
3
4 Do you know RFC-822 by heart?
5    RFC-822 ?
3
4 ... Can you recite all the errors in it?
5    ᫨  訡  ?
3
4 Have you written a Sendmail configuration file?
5 ᠫ   䨣樮 䠩 Sendmail?
3
4 ... Does it work?
5  ࠡ⠥?
3
4 ... Do you mumble "defocus" in your sleep?
5     ᭥ "defocus"?
3
4 Do you know the max packet lifetime?
5    ᨬ쭮 ६  ?
3
1 * Operating systems
2 * 樮 ⥬
3
1 Can you use
2    ᯮ짮
3
6 ... BSD Unix?
3
6 ... non-BSD Unix?
3
6 ... AIX
3
6 ... VM/CMS?
3
6 ... VMS?
3
6 ... MVS?
3
6 ... VSE?
3
6 ... RSTS/E?
3
6 ... CP/M?
3
6 ... COS?
3
6 ... NOS?
3
6 ... CP-67?
3
6 ... RT-11?
3
6 ... MS-DOS?
3
6 ... Finder?
3
6 ... PRODOS?
3
4 ... more than one OS for the TRS-80?
5      1   TRS-80?
3
6 ... Tops-10?
3
6 ... Tops-20?
3
6 ... OS-9?
3
6 ... OS/2?
3
6 ... AOS/VS?
3
6 ... Multics?
3
6 ... ITS?
3
6 ... Vulcan?
3
4 Have you ever paged or swapped off a tape drive?
5  (, ࠭筮)     ?
3
4 ... Off a card reader/punch?
5  ?
3
4 ... Off a teletype?
5  ⥫⠩?
3
4 ... Off a networked (non-local) disk?
5  ⥢ () ?
3
4 Have you ever found an operating system bug?
5 室   訡  ?
3
4 ... Did you exploit it?
5 ᯮ짮   ?
3
4 ... Did you report it?
5 騫    ?
3
4 ... Was your report ignored?
5 뫮   ᮮ饭 ந஢?
3
4 Have you ever crashed a machine?
5 ⨫    設?
3
4 ... Intentionally?
5 ... 諥?
3
1 * People
2   
3
4 Do you know any people?
5     ?
3
4 ... more than one?
5  1-?
3
4 ... more than two?
5  2-?
3
1 * Personal
2   ᮭ
3
4 Are your shoelaces untied?
5 易  ન   ⨭?
3
4 Do you interface well with strangers?
5      묨?
3
1 Are you able to recite phone numbers for half-a-dozen computer systems
4 but unable to recite your own?
2     ⥫䮭  6  ⥬  ⮬,  
5  ᢮?
3
4 Do you log in before breakfast?
5 砥     ࠪ?
3
4 Do you consume more than LD-50 caffeine a day?
5 ॡ    LD-50 䥨  ?
3
4 Do you answer either-or questions with "yes"?
5 ⢥砥     / ⢥⮬ ""?
3
4 Do you own an up-to-date copy of any operating system manual?
5    ᫥  㪮⢠   ?
3
4 ... *every* operating system manual?
5  ᥬ ?
3
4 Do other people have difficulty using your customized environment?
2   㣨  㤭  ᯮ짮 ।, 
5  ᯮᮡ  ᥡ?
3
4 Do you dream in any programming languages?
5      몠 ணࠬ஢?
3
4 Do you have difficulty focusing on three-dimensional objects?
5     ᫮  ᬠਢ 3-  ꥪ⮢?
3
4 Do you ignore mice?
5    ?
3
4 Do you despise the CAPS LOCK key?
5 १ࠥ    CAPS LOCK?
3
4 Do you believe menus belong in restaurants?
5 ⠥  ,     ࠭?
3
4 Do you have a Mandelbrot hanging on your wall?
5     ⨭   ⥭?
3
4 Have you ever decorated with magnetic tape or punched cards?
5 蠫   ᢮  ⭮ ⮩  䮪⠬?
3
4 Do you have a disk platter or a naked floppy hanging in your home?
5      ᪮ ⨭     ?
3
4 Have you ever seen the dawn?
5 ⠢     ࠡ⮩?
3
4 ... Twice in a row?
5 ... 2  p ?
3
4 Do you use "foobar" in daily conversation?
5 ᯮ   ᫮ "foobar"   ࠧ?
3
4 ... "bletch"?
5  "bletch"?
3
4 Do you use the "P convention"?
5 ᯮ   "P-"?
3
4 Do you automatically respond to any user question with RTFM?
5 ⢥砥   ⮬᪨    짮⥫ ᫮ RTFM?
3
4 ... Do you know what it means?
5    ,   ?
3
4 Do you think garbage collection means memory management?
5 ⠥  ,  ᡮઠ   ࠢ ?
3
4 Do you have problems allocating horizontal space in your room/office?
2     ஡  ⮬  p⠫쭮 p孮c  襩
5   ०?
3
4 Do you read Scientific American in bars to pick up women?
2 ⠥   Scientific American    ⮣, ⮡  c 頫
5  騭?
3
4 Is your license plate computer-related?
5 易    ⮬  ࠬ?
3
4 Have you ever taken the Purity test?
5 室      (Purity test)?
3
4 Ever have an out-of-CPU experience?
5     ࠡ  CPU?
3
4 Have you ever set up a blind date over the computer?
5 ⠭      ᫥?
3
4 Do you talk to the person next to you via computer?
5     祫, ᨤ騬 冷  , १ ?
3
1 * Programming
2   ணࠬ஢
3
4 Can you write a Fortran compiler?
5       ࠭?
3
4 ... In TECO?
5   TECO?
3
4 Can you read a machine dump?
5     設 ?
3
4 Can you disassemble code in your head?
5    ᥬ஢   㬥?
3
1 Have you ever written
2 ᠫ   -
3
4 ... a compiler?
5 ?
3
4 ... an operating system?
5 p樮 cc⥬?
3
4 ... a device driver?
5 ࠩ ன⢠?
3
4 ... a text processor?
5 ⥪⮢ pccp?
3
4 ... a display hack?
5 樮 pp?
3
4 ... a database system?
5 ?
3
4 ... an expert system?
5 ᯥ ⥬?
3
4 ... an edge detector?
5 ⥪ ࠭  ࠦ?
3
4 ... a real-time control system?
5 ࠢ ⥬ ॠ쭮 ६?
3
4 ... an accounting package?
5 壠᪨ ?
3
4 ... a virus?
5 ?
3
4 ... a prophylactic?
5 ⨢?
3
4 Have you ever written a biorhythm program?
5 ᠫ   ணࠬ ⬮?
3
4 ... Did you sell the output?
5 த    १?
3
4 ... Was the output arbitrarily invented?
5   १ 襩 㬪?
3
4 Have you ever computed pi to more than a thousand decimal places?
5 﫨   c ""   祬 1000  ?
3
4 ... the number e?
5 ... ᫮ e?
3
4 Ever find a prime number of more than a hundred digits?
5 室    祬 100-筮 ⮥ ᫮?
3
4 Have you ever written self-modifying code?
5 ᠫ  ᠬp騩c ?
3
4 ... Are you proud of it?
5 न   ⨬?
3
4 Did you ever write a program that ran correctly the first time?
2 ᠫ   ணࠬ,  ࠢ쭮 ࠡ⠫  ࢮ ࠧ?
3
4 ... Was it longer than 20 lines?
5 뫠    20 ப?
3
4 ... 100 lines?
5  100 ப?
3
4 ... Was it in assembly language?
5 뫠    ᥬ?
3
4 ... Did it work the second time?
5 ⠫   ࠢ쭮  2- ࠧ?
3
4 Can you solve the Towers of Hanoi recursively?
5     ᪨ 譨 ४ᨢ?
3
4 ... Non-recursively?
5  ४ᨢ?
3
4 ... Using the Troff text formatter?
5  ᯮ ⥪⮢ ଠ⨧ Troff?
3
4 Ever submit an entry to the Obfuscated C code contest?
5 ਭ   ⨥  易  ᠬ ⠭   ?
3
4 ... Did it win?
5   ?
3
4 ... Did your entry inspire a new rule?
5 ਢ   ਬ    ࠢ?
3
4 Do you know Duff's device?
5    ன⢮ ?
3
4 Do you know Jensen's device?
5    ன⢮ ᥭ?
3
4 Ever spend ten minutes trying to find a single-character error?
5 室    10 .  宦 訡  1 ᨬ?
3
4 ... More than an hour?
5 ...  ?
3
4 ... More than a day?
5 ...  ?
3
4 ... More than a week?
5 ...  ?
3
4 ... Did the first person you show it to find it immediately?
5 ... 襫     ,    ?
3
1 * Unix
2 * 
3
4 Can you use Berkeley Unix?
5    ᯮ짮 ફ᪨ UNIX?
3
4 .. Non-Berkeley Unix?
5 ... ફ᪨ UNIX?
3
4 Can you distinguish between sections 4 and 5 of the Unix manual?
5    ⫨  4  5 㪮⢠  ?
3
4 Can you find TERMIO in the System V release 2 documentation?
5     TERMIO  㬥樨  System V release 2?
3
4 Have you ever mounted a tape as a Unix file system?
5 ⠭     䠩 ⥬ UNIX?
3
4 Have you ever built Minix?
5 ⠭   Minix?
3
4 Can you answer "quiz function ed-command" correctly?
5    ⢥  "quiz function ed-command" ࠢ쭮?
3
4 ... How about "quiz ed-command function"?
5    "quiz ed-command function"?
3
3 * Usenet
3
4 Do you read news?
5 ⠥   ?
3
4 ... More than 32 newsgroups?
5  ᪨  32 㯯 ⥩?
3
4 ... More than 256 newsgroups?
5  ᪨  256 㯯 ⥩?
3
4 ... All the newsgroups?
5   㯯 ⥩?
3
4 Have you ever posted an article?
5 ࠢ﫨   ?
3
4 ... Do you post regularly?
5 ࠢ    ॣ୮?
3
4 Have you ever posted a flame?
5 뫠   flame?
3
4 ... Ever flame a cross-posting?
5 pp    flame ppc ?
3
4 ... Ever flame a flame?
5 ⢥砫   flame  flame?
3
4 ... Do you flame regularly?
5     pp?
3
4 Ever have your program posted to a source newsgroup?
5 뫠   ணࠬ  㯯 ⥩  室?
3
4 Ever forge a posting?
5 뢠   ⮢ ࠢ?
3
4 Ever form a new newsgroup?
5 ନ஢   㯯 ⥩?
3
4 ... Does it still exist?
5    ?
3
1 Do you remember
2   
3
4 ... mod.ber?
5 mod.ber?
3
4 ... the Stupid People's Court?
5  殢 (Stupid People's Court)?
3
4 ... Bandy-grams?
5 ࠬ⨪ ?
3
1 * Phreaking
2 * ࠧ
3
4 Have you ever built a black box?
5     騪?
3
4 Can you name all of the 'colors' of boxes?
5      梥 騪?
3
4 ... and their associated functions?
5  易   㭪樨?
3
4 Does your touch tone phone have 16 DTMF buttons on it?
5     ⥫䮭 16  DTMF?
3
4 Did the breakup of MaBell create more opportunities for you?
5   ࠧ MaBell    ?
3
1 If you have any comments of suggestions regarding the HACKER TEST,
1 please send then to:
1
2 ᫨    ਨ  ।  HACKER TEST, 뫠
2 :
2
3                   hayes@psunuce.bitnet
3                   or jwh100@psuvm.bitnet / jwh100@psuvmxa.bitnet
3                   or jwh100@psuvm.psu.edu / jwh100@psuvmxa.psu.edu
3                   or ...!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!jwh100
3
1 To translate for russian and programming:
1 FIdoNet 2:5020/6.6, Lavrentyev Mikel
1
2   p  pp:
2 FidoNet 2:5020/6.6, Lavrentyev Mikel
2
2 p pp p  pcc  - p p, IPIAN
2 pp p⪠  pp      - by Lavrentyev Mikel, Mikel soft
2 p pc c                 - by Igor Sviridov, Compact Soft
2 
2 May 25, 1991  筥    - Harry Bush, Juris Bekins, SILAVA-INFO,
2                                       Salaspils, Latvia 
*EOF*


