Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: DMC/DMR11 diagnostics Message-ID: <5577@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Wed, 28-Jan-87 02:18:37 EST Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5577 Posted: Wed Jan 28 02:18:37 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 29-Jan-87 05:50:47 EST References: <2771@ihlpa.UUCP> <288@mtxinu.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 14 In article <288@mtxinu.UUCP> kridle@mtxinu.UUCP (Bob kridle) writes: >a DEC DMC11 and discovered it would pass the external loopback test >without having the loopback installed! If so, it's not the only one. A very good DEC Field Service person I once knew had the theory that DEC diagnostics were designed to convince the customer that his newly-delivered equipment was working just fine so that he would sign off on it. This person was only partly jesting.. The other fun thing is knowing which "spurious" reported problems (due to bugs in the diagnostics themselves) can be safely ignored. Not to pick on DEC; I've seen this elsewhere too.