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From: dibble@rochester.ARPA (Peter C. Dibble)
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Subject: Re: Spontaneous ReBoots of OS9?
Message-ID: <16500@rochester.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 08:58:03 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 24 08:58:03 1986
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Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept., Rochester, NY
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Summary: OS-9 reboots sometimes.

In article <775@ihwpt.UUCP>, knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen) writes:
> Under what conditions, if any, should RS CoCo OS9
> version 1.1 decide to reboot itself?

My OS-9 Level Two Gimix system reboots sometimes too.  It is always a symptom
of a program running wild.

There are places in OS-9 where it voluntarily reboots.  It happens when 
things appear hopelessly mixed up to OS-9.  I think the easiest way to get
into that state on a CoCo would be to write into the system direct page.

Under Level Two most of the system's memory is protected from user programs.
I think that my autonomous reboots were caused by programs executing random 
code after a bad branch.

Peter Dibble @ Rochester