Tyop

From: Daniel A. Seagraves <DSEAGRAV_at_toad.xkl.com>
Date: Thu Aug 13 14:42:12 1998

[Tyop?]
That was an intentional joke.

[HACTRN]
HACTRN was the top-level DDT when ITS was under timesharing.
The TOP-TOP leved DDT could be considered the NTSDDT, which was what
the person at the console got when ITS went belly up. Or it could be
DSKDMP. The source doesn't say explicitly, and I've heard both stories.
Some people elected to use a disk-enabled NTSDDT as the bootloader, and
some used DSKDMP. (I think, I could be wrong).

[What baud rate?]

It's the telephone company. The line "disappears" for gaps of 1-30 seconds
at random. The carrier isn't dropped, but no data gets across. They're having
trouble with the COs around here. I'm in Peoria, IL, and I was told by a
lineman whos my stepdad's friend that the problem is that when Bell System
was split up years ago, the documents saying how the COs in the are talked
to each other were lost. So, stuff that was considered minor were way overloaded,
and stuff that was thought to be major was actually unplugged, and the like.
They're trying to re-route things to establish some order, but having
little/no luck.
Lowering the baud rate wouldn't help. But I do have an accoustic coupler
and a printing terminal... (I think the coupler's dead though...)
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