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- Subject: RE: more information on error message
- Message-ID: <2020095215OCT92182131@TGV.COM>
- From: Ehud Gavron 602-570-2546 <GAVRON@IT.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: 15 OCT 92 18:21:31 GMT
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- Date sent: 15-OCT-1992 10:03:04
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- Melvin Acorn, <ACSSYSMA%EKU.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>, writes:
- >
- >I recently found the following on the console and I am wondering
- >if someone can tell me more about what might have caused this
- >error.
-
- The VMS OPDRIVER receives a packet (IRP) with information destined
- to OPA0. It then calls internal routines which send that information
- to the console. The hardware complies and appropriate bits corresponding
- to ASCII characters are sent electrically down the wire.
-
- The console device interprets these bits and displays the characters
- via either magnetically pushing pins against a ribbon (e.g. LA120) or
- firing an electron beam at particular points in its traversal of a
- screen so as to display what we humans interpret as characters.
-
- So that's how an error appeared on your console!
-
- >"Multinet Server: R_SERVICES: Bogus state dispatch, DCL still running"
-
- Ok, I really don't know what it means, but since nobody else said anything
- I figured I'd inject some levity. After all, we're only 17 shopping days
- from elections!
-
- >Also since the console indicates that the user was system is there
- >any way of determining who actually caused the problem?
-
- If there was truly an incontrovertible way of fixing blame, don't you
- think it would be patented by Unisys by now? ("We've been doing it
- all along so it's OUR method. What? Compression?")
-
- >Melvin Alcorn
- >Eastern Kentucky University
-
- Cheers, and in good humor
-
- Ehud
-
- --
- Ehud Gavron (EG76)
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- "The world bores you when you're cool." from an Alpha
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