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From: AWalker@RED.RUTGERS.EDU (*Hobbit*)
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Subject: Raxco, etc
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Regular ole VMS backup will stream a TU80, especially if you use /buffers=5.
However, if Raxco's stuff is significantly better, could someone in the know
forward details on *why* it's better?  [Hmm, Ronco software, anyone?]

I found that a framing error received by a Microvax II serial port will crash
the machine.  Or at least it does to the one I have.  I was using the port
[the CSA0: device] to talk to another machine via its terminal line, and 
set the speed of the remote port slower than I already had it.  The remote
machine did so, gave its prompt at the new lower baud rate, and the microvax
promptly wedged [i.e. the vr220 [is that what they call it?] glitched as 
though a processor init/unjam had been done like when you boot the thing.
This is acually a vaxstation II, so doing things to the processor sometimes
affects the video driver which is why you can observe the paroxysms when this
baud-rate lossage happens.  Anyone have a ready explanation for this?  It 
made an interesting project out of getting async Decnet running.

_H*
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