microcode, compilers, and supercomputer architecture

At 09:55 08/04/99 -0400, allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote: One somewhat amusing DEC FS incident. A few years ago La Trobe was hosting a DECUS event and a couple of us at La Trobe decided that we should do something to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Unix (however we measured this). We acquired a PDP-11/44 and installed BSD 2.11 on it. As DECUS were sponsoring the event, we had a promise that if we had a hardware failure, FS would be called at Digital's expense. Well, the RL controller failed so I logged a call. It took quite a while to convince telephone support that Digital did in fact manufacture PDP-11s and the look on the (fairly young) FS engineer's face when he arrived on site was priceless. Fortunately he'd brought along a replacement card which I installed (helps if you know a bit about hardware :-). We were asked not to log any more calls..... Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"