What is 'MCP'?
It's the Command Language for Unisys A-Series and represents
what this list desperately needs; an MCP expert. I'm an MCP
moron so that's why I've spend so little time with my system...
Doing a ListenWait() for more information.
Do you know about the 'setup' program that it
keeps asking
me to run? Does it boot from floppy?
I haven't seen this or at least it wasn't a problem for me.
Just sounds like that situation with some manufacturers PC's where
the BIOS setup is completely out of ROM and they require a
diskette when the BIOS cache* battery fails
Is this thing interesting enough to be work spending
some
time on?
Well, I found mine in some scrap, not knowing what it was, I
dismantled it for the Adaptec cards, etc. Got to the custom
memory+CPU, took a good look at all that custom LSI, stopped
put the whole thing back together again, and voila! It, uhhh, did
something. After finding all the external drives and OS/2 commands
it really paid off as a Unique experience. It's a mainframe in a box,
like the PC/370's that some people on the list have. Takes up a lot
less garage space than the real thing.
John A.
*possible misuse of terminology