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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX")
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:17:34 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1703170908320.9589@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1489678815.19703.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>

On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, Norman Wilson wrote:

> (Contrary to the rude stories one hears, those diags were in fact pretty 
> thorough.)

They sure were...  We had a problem with our RK-11 when running Unix, and 
because it never showed up with RSX it must've been the fault of Unix, 
right?

Wrong...  The DEC gingerbeer turned up with something called "DECEX" (for 
DEC exerciser); it was menu-driven, and you could exercise as much of the 
system as you wanted (simultaneously).  Well, it found that overlapped 
seeks were not implemented properly on the RK-11 (which Unix used but RSX 
didn't, and neither did their standard diags).  One quick FCO later, and 
it was fixed; red faces on the part of DEC...

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-16 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-16 15:40 Norman Wilson
2017-03-16 17:26 ` William Pechter
2017-03-16 18:45   ` Clem Cole
2017-03-16 22:17 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
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2017-03-14 20:05 Clem Cole
2017-03-14 20:16 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-14 20:54 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-14 21:19   ` Clem Cole
2017-03-14 19:01 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-14 14:43 Clem Cole
2017-03-14 15:38 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-14 15:51   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-14 15:56     ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-14 15:57     ` Michael Kjörling
2017-03-14 16:20       ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-14 18:06         ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-14 18:31           ` Clem Cole
2017-03-14 18:59             ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-14 18:20         ` Clem Cole
2017-03-14 19:48           ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-15 14:32             ` Michael Kjörling
2017-03-15 15:36               ` Arthur Krewat
     [not found]                 ` <58c9623b.law1Aw2ufj3DFNA1%schily@schily.net>
2017-03-15 15:54                   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-15 15:59                 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-15 17:43                   ` Warner Losh
2017-03-15 19:02                     ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-15 19:14                       ` Warner Losh
2017-03-14 18:41         ` Warner Losh
2017-03-14 18:18   ` Clem Cole
2017-03-14 16:20 ` tfb
2017-03-14 22:45 ` Josh Good
2017-03-15  1:11   ` Clem Cole
2017-03-15  7:55     ` arnold
2017-03-15 19:28     ` Josh Good
2017-03-15 19:35       ` Clem Cole
2017-03-15 20:26         ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-15 23:22           ` 'Josh Good'
2017-03-15 19:45       ` Clem Cole
2017-03-15 20:27         ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-15 20:48           ` Clem Cole
2017-03-15 23:46           ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-16  0:45             ` Clem Cole
2017-03-16  1:27               ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-16  3:09                 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-16  3:18                   ` Charles Anthony
2017-03-16  3:36               ` Dan Cross
2017-03-16  4:08                 ` arnold
2017-03-16 12:51               ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-16 13:18                 ` William Pechter
2017-03-17 21:20               ` Josh Good
2017-03-16 15:42           ` Chet Ramey
2017-03-16 17:29             ` William Pechter
2017-03-15 23:55         ` Josh Good
2017-03-16  0:05           ` William Pechter
2017-03-15 20:08       ` Clem Cole
2017-03-16  0:46         ` Wesley Parish
2017-03-16  0:52           ` Clem Cole
2017-03-16 19:47       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-17  2:16         ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-17 15:55           ` Warner Losh
2017-03-17 21:11           ` Dave Horsfall

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