[HECnet] Another TOPS-10 DECnet problem

[Thomas DeBellis]

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.

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)

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.


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On 11/10/21 4:22 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>
> >It is certainly true that NML might be choking on legitimately bogus 
> monitor data.
>
>   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.
>
> > However, one hesitates to observe that signaling incorrect input by 
> crashing is a misfeature...
>
>   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 :)
>
> Bob
>
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