Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rti-sel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!rcb From: rcb@rti-sel.UUCP (Random) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Shipments of uVAX II resume after NEC component replaced Message-ID: <432@rti-sel.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 09:33:16 EDT Article-I.D.: rti-sel.432 Posted: Mon Sep 30 09:33:16 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 03:42:41 EDT References: <4406@amdcad.UUCP> Reply-To: rcb@rti-sel.UUCP (Random) Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.micro:12188 net.unix-wizards:15058 Summary: In article <4406@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes: >(From 9/23/85 Electronics) > > DEC's Ultrix was at first thought to be at fault because the >failure occurred when the uVAX was running under that operating >system, but did not occur under the VMS operating system. However, VMS >in effect masked the error because it regularly writes to all memory >chips as part of normal operation. Anyone know where they got this information. I work on VMS almost exclusively and I have never heard of this business of writing to all memory locations regularly. Any information about this or is "Electronics" just totally confused. -- Random Research Triangle Institute ...!mcnc!rti-sel!rcb Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com