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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: DMC/DMR11 diagnostics
Message-ID: <851@epimass.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 16:06:23 EST
Article-I.D.: epimass.851
Posted: Thu Jan 29 16:06:23 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Jan-87 02:22:07 EST
References: <2771@ihlpa.UUCP> <288@mtxinu.UUCP> <5577@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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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!

In article <5577@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>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..

Heard at the Usenix conference (though it's apparently an old joke):

DEC diagnostics would run on a beached whale.


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- Joe Buck 	{hplabs,ihnp4,sun,ames}!oliveb!epimass!jbuck	HASA (A,S)
  Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, California