Tyop

[Tyop?] That was an intentional joke. [HACTRN] HACTRN was the top-level DDT when ITS was under timesharing. The TOP-TOP leved DDT could be considered the NTSDDT, which was what the person at the console got when ITS went belly up. Or it could be DSKDMP. The source doesn't say explicitly, and I've heard both stories. Some people elected to use a disk-enabled NTSDDT as the bootloader, and some used DSKDMP. (I think, I could be wrong). [What baud rate?] It's the telephone company. The line "disappears" for gaps of 1-30 seconds at random. The carrier isn't dropped, but no data gets across. They're having trouble with the COs around here. I'm in Peoria, IL, and I was told by a lineman whos my stepdad's friend that the problem is that when Bell System was split up years ago, the documents saying how the COs in the are talked to each other were lost. So, stuff that was considered minor were way overloaded, and stuff that was thought to be major was actually unplugged, and the like. They're trying to re-route things to establish some order, but having little/no luck. Lowering the baud rate wouldn't help. But I do have an accoustic coupler and a printing terminal... (I think the coupler's dead though...) -------