[HECnet] Another TOPS-10 DECnet problem
Paul Koning
paulkoning at comcast.net
Thu Nov 11 11:43:53 PST 2021
:-) They sure where logged out when the message "plato off" appeared on every terminal...
paul
> On Nov 11, 2021, at 2:29 PM, Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net> wrote:
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> Paul,
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> Don’t you mean 600 logged OUT students?
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> -Steve
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> SF:IP2
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>> 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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>> paul
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