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    Ah, OK, so I got that backwards...  So it's Tops-10 reporting a
    malformed request from NML by crashing, then.  Alright, it's a
    misfeature.<br>
    <br>
    Did you happen to have a crash dump?  I might like to take a look
    after I get Kermit-20 behaving better (and after I figure out what's
    what with K10MIT, sigh)<br>
    <br>
    100 students?  That's all?  Heh...  I can't even remember how many
    we had online with six 20's, but it didn't matter.  If one of them
    went out, you got your choice of machine room phone color: bright
    red hot or white hot.   Been there, done that.  Glad I'm not doing
    it any more.<br>
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      <hr width="100%" size="2">On 11/10/21 4:22 PM, Robert Armstrong
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>It
          is certainly true that NML might be choking on legitimately
          bogus monitor data.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">  Actually,
            we’re talking about the other way around – the monitor is
            choking on, maybe legitimate maybe bogus (nobody knows at
            this point), data from NML.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>   
          However, one hesitates to observe that signaling incorrect
          input by crashing is a misfeature...<span
            style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">  No, one
            doesn’t hesitate in my universe…  Especially when we’re
            talking about crashing a timesharing operating system with
            maybe 100 users logged in, most of whom are students
            frantically trying to get their homework finished before
            class starts in ten minutes :)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Bob<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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