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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Who sells PC/VI?:  Now MKS Toolkit
Message-ID: <6123@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 15:42:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: steinmet.6123
Posted: Wed Jun  3 15:42:29 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 04:03:39 EDT
References: <42900004@uicsrd| <413@qiclab.UUCP| <2168@tekgvs.TEK.COM|
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Distribution: comp
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <475@qiclab.UUCP> neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steven C. Neighorn) writes:
|In article <6067@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
|
|>There were (still are) a few sequences which cause problems, and it doesn't
|>LIKE to run on a fast system (don't ask me why a command processor is timing
|>sensitive, it is).
|>-- 
|>bill davidsen			sixhub \	ARPA: wedu@ge-crd.arpa
|>      ihnp4!seismo!rochester!steinmetz ->  crdos1!davidsen
|
|What's this about not liking to run on a fast system? I have been using
|the program on a 80386 machine running at 16 Mhz for over 6 months and
|have yet to encounter an error that could not be duplicated on a 4.77 Mhz
|PC/XT. Could you elaborate on the problems you have encountered with fast
|systems? I would like to try to them out on the systems I use (PC/XT, AT,
|AT clone at 10 Mhz, and '386). Mucho Thanks.

When I run ksh on my GV386 (16 MHz, 0w/s) I get an occasional burp which
hangs the system. It has to do with either "do something and cd" or "cd
and do something" sequences, and doesn't happen every time. I have never
seen it on an XT (real IBM). A friend of mine who is getting beta test
versions has a 12MHz 0w/s AT clone, and he reports that there are hangs
at 12MHz, none a 8, none at 1w/s.

I have a good line to MKS, but I can't report a bug I can't reproduce.
At least I know it's not my machine (or Murphy strikes again) since it
happens on two machines of different brands. At the moment I put cd on a
line by itself.
|-- 
|Steven C. Neighorn                tektronix!{psu-cs,reed}!qiclab!neighorn
|Portland Public Schools      "Where we train young Star Fighters to defend the
|(503) 249-2000 ext 337           frontier against Xur and the Ko-dan Armada"

Disclamer: this is not a knock of the product which I considered so good
that I bought a copy with my own money.


-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
  {chinet | philabs | sesimo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me