Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!berry From: berry@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: UNIX continues! - (nf) Message-ID: <1238@fortune.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Jul-83 19:07:00 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.1238 Posted: Wed Jul 6 19:07:00 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 22:41:23 EDT Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, San Carlos, CA Lines: 12 #R:floyd:-171200:fortune:11600024:000:421 fortune!berry Jul 6 12:41:00 1983 Re: Continuing Vaxen Our 11/70 running 2.x BSD used to get hung up occasionally and we could get it back by burping the machine(halting and continuing). Evidently interrupts getting caught in tight loops can be broken this way. We never found out exactly what it was and tried to bring the system down nicely as soon as possible. After all, I would consider a partial sync to be better than no sync at all, maybe...