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From: richl@penguin.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: VAX 780/782 FCO
Message-ID: <2230@tektools.TEK.COM>
Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 18:02:41 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 24 18:02:41 1987
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References: <4535@brl-adm.ARPA>
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Reply-To: richl@penguin.tek.com (Rick Lindsley)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <4535@brl-adm.ARPA> bierma@nprdc.arpa writes:

> We just received an FCO from DEC for our 11/780's.  It performs an
> upgrade to "Revision 8 or 8B".  Quoting from the document
> 
> 	New FPLA pattern is required to support WCS 125 microcode.
> 	New microcode fixes problems with EDITPC EO$ADJUST_INPUT,
> 	ASHP, XFC, MOVP, CALLS/CALLG, REI, REMQUE, and RET
> 	instrustions.

It was recently installed on a Vax 780 here, with no adverse effects
yet (it's only been installed for 5 days.) Our hardware guys tell us
this is an all or nothing sort of thing anyway -- if it will fail, it
will likely fail bigtime and immediate, which it hasn't.

Rick