Dwight Elvey wrote:
>Neil Cherry <ncherry_at_home.net> wrote:
> > Bill Pechter wrote:
> > > Hearing anyone decode the FUBAR makes me twitch.
> >
> > Uhmm isn't the computer version Foo bar as in Foo bar blatz zam zow
> > (I'm not sure about the last ones anymore).
>Hi
> Besides, what is wrong with "fouled up beyond all recognition"??
Given that my last experience with FUBAR was only a
couple of years ago on a VAX 6520, it certainly fits.
Getting a UNIBUS on a 6520 goes something like this:
- CPUs and memory live on NMI
- An NMI->XMI adapter gets you to
- an XMI->VAXBI adapter which gets you to
- a VAXBI->UNIBUS adapter on which you can find
- your UNIBUS device
Occasionally the UNIBUS device would nose over. It
looked to me like the VAXBI->UNIBUS adapter was getting
in trouble occasionally (not necessarily surprising,
given how deep things are getting piled here (did I
forget to mention 6520s use write-back cache?)). About
the time I was starting to get a handle on the problem
my employment situation changed and I wasn't working on
it anymore. I'll be surprised if I ever hear what was
going on and how (or if) it got resolved.
--
Roger Ivie
rivie_at_teraglobal.com
Not speaking for TeraGlobal Communications Corporation
Received on Wed Oct 04 2000 - 15:16:49 BST