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From: derstad@CIM-VAX.HONEYWELL.COM ("DAVE ERSTAD")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  memory allocation bug
Message-ID: <8912141641.AA09668@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 89 19:53:00 GMT
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>   >I found there is a patch on the November patch tape that sounds
>   >suspiciously like this problem but only applies to SAU2, 3, and 5
>   >machines.  I haven't gotten any word back from the Apollo
>   >hotline yet.
>   
>   Hmm, either your definition of the term "November Patch Tape" is different
>   from ours, or you have a strange tape.  As far as I can tell, there
>   wasn't a Prism November patch tape, and the Moto tape contained
>   only patches related to the X Window System.

The patch tape had release notes labeled

                         Patch_M68K_8911 Release Notes

There were many non-X patches (over half, I'm sure).  The bulk seemed
to fix sau7/DN4500 problems.

The patch in question was unrelated to the problem, however.

Dave Erstad
Honeywell SSEC
DERSTAD@cim-vax.honeywell.com