[HECnet] Another TOPS-10 DECnet problem

[Steve Davidson]

Paul,

Don’t you mean 600 logged OUT students?

-Steve

SF:IP2

> On Nov 11, 2021, at 13:45, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> On Nov 11, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Thomas DeBellis <tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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> Indeed.  I still remember the blistering I got (in 1977) when I added a new feature and the result was a system crash (buffer overflow due to falling behind) in the middle of the day, at max load.  Max load was 600 logged-in students.  Ouch.
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