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From: JARRELLRA%VPIVAX5.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (Ronald A. Jarrell)
Newsgroups: fa.info-vax
Subject: Re: The little 785 that couldn't
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 21:13:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 21:13:17 1985
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Have you had your 785 fpa checked?
The fpa's that went out *don't work*. A number of things aren't fixed yet,
and are bascially commented out.  I think
there are several different fpa's out in the field.
We wemt through 4, 2 because they were actually bad, and
the other because a newer version was out
and we needed it desperatly (the vax was
bought only to be a number cruncher...)

As a side point, check the microcode
file on your boot floppy.  If it's a
B, contact Field Service and get C.
(that will be slow, my FE has been trying
to get it for 2 months)  B has a bug that
causes a VMS system to crash with an
insufficient pagedyn message if the
right combination of instructions is
used. C fixes it.

-Ron Jarrell
 Va Tech
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