microcode, compilers, and supercomputer architecture

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Fri Apr 9 09:52:10 1999

At 10:07 08/04/99 -0400, Bill Pechter wrote:

>I think DEC did some of the best diags in the industry.

Well they had bad days as well. Ask anyone who has had to maintain Nautilus
class VAX systems (88xx, 85xx, 8350). You could be fairly sure that the
defective module called by the diags was not the one that had failed. I'm
twitching now at the terminal and it's been three or four years since I
last had to maintain our 8800s....

Please don't mention retorquing the back plane, please!!!


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