In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/30/2005
at 03:34 PM, Bruce Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>One of my jobs at Univac/RCA was maintaining the error recovery
>routines for I/O devices, incluing the RACE. Luckily, the system
>was so flakey that it was easy to generate errors to test with.
>Unluckily, there was little you could do to recover from a card that
>got crunched going down the raceway.
Or returned to the wrong magazine :-(
While the 3488 had some ugly failure modes, so did the 2321, and I
believe that on balance the 3488 was more reliable. Aside from that,
Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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