On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 10:21 AM Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:

Running TSO is like kicking a dead whale down the beach.

I definitely stand corrected on that, now that I recall it was pot shot at IBM, not DEC.

Since scj is on this list, maybe he can confirm that part.

Very possible -- sound a little less like a Dennis quip than others from those days.

DEC's diags were far from perfect, but they were a hell of a
lot better than the largely-nonexistent diags available for
modern Intel-architecture systems.

I agree.

Give me XXDP, not just the Blue Screen of Death.

Right.