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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: can you read machine temperatures from a program (on VAX 8650)?
Message-ID: <12689@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 88 04:37:36 GMT
References: <11142@andante.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <11142@andante.UUCP> mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) writes:
>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?

Yes.  The only problem is that we have not figured out how to get the
EMM to speak up.  Fred Blonder wrote a preliminary /dev/emm driver,
but it does not work at all, and after reading the hardware register
descriptions several times I still have not deciphered them.

If anyone out there has working 86xx console-poking code, I would
appreciate a copy, if possible....

Chris
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