microcode, compilers, and supercomputer architecture

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Fri Apr 9 09:53:16 1999

At 10:18 08/04/99 -0400, CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com wrote:
>>DEC's customer runnable MicroVax stuff was fairly lame though.
>
>Generally, if you can boot the diagnostics on a Microvax, you
>know that the Microvax is OK. Yep, pretty useless, considering
>that if you can't boot VMS, you can't boot the diagnostics.

I always considered VMS as the ultimate diagnostic. If you could boot VMS
the hardware was most of the way to being OK.

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