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- From: robinson@stout.geo.brown.edu (Darrin Robinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: SHOW/UNIBUS (was: What is XPDRIVER for?
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 15:59:01 GMT
- Organization: Brown University, Providence RI 02912
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- Message-ID: <1hv5c5INNedq@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>
- References: <1992Dec29.185622.1038@cmkrnl.com> <1hs7k7INNnqs@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Dec30.100239.1043@cmkrnl.com>
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- In article <1992Dec30.100239.1043@cmkrnl.com> jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- >>In article <1hs7k7INNnqs@gap.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
- >
- [stuff deleted for {MHz|BPS}]
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- >
- >> Using this command can crash your system.
- >
- >Calling all readers: Has ANYONE out there ever seen this actually happen?
- >If so, what devices were on the bus?
- >
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- In 12 years of VAX systems management, I've never had a system crash or do
- anything "inconsistent" with normal behaviour while issuing the SHOW/UNIBUS
- command in SYSGEN. And I've had some weird devices on the UNIBUS from
- KMS-11s (BSC bi-synchornous controllers) to Gould IP Display subsystems...
-
- Darrin
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