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From: JIM@AUVM.AUVM.EDU (Jim McIntosh)
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Subject: Re: Immediate Commands and Beeps
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Date: 31 Aug 90 18:18:22 GMT
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In article <ASM370%90082908493406@OHSTVMA.BITNET>, Rick Troth
<TROTH@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU> says:
>        You're right that it's generated by CP.  I thought that by doing
>SIO with command code X'0B' I'd be able to avoid the text,  but NNOOOOO.
>Legend says that it's kind of an inside joke with the VM developers in
>that one of the real consoles on some older model of 370 (who's number
>escapes me) had an obnoxious fire alarm style bell.

The 360/40 console had an alarm bell that would wake the dead, but that
would have been before VM (even as CP-67) was around.
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Jim McIntosh (JIM@AUVM)
The American University
Washington DC 20016 USA