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From: mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: can you read machine temperatures from a program (on VAX 8650)?
Message-ID: <11142@andante.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jul 88 20:06:23 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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After components in some of our VAXes were fried after a power outage
one evening (the air conditioning units in our machine room don't
automatically come on when the power comes back on),
our DEC FE showed us the >>>SHO POWER command on our 8650's, which
shows the temperature of several thermistors.  Are these temperature
values kept in some machine registers somewhere that a program
(possibly with the help of a UNIX kernel) can read?

	Mark Plotnick
	allegra!mp