Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcsstat.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsstat!geoff From: geoff@utcsstat.UUCP (Geoffrey Collyer) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.research,net.cse Subject: Re: First Summary of PC's in Education Survey Message-ID: <1765@utcsstat.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 00:53:29 EST Article-I.D.: utcsstat.1765 Posted: Tue Mar 13 00:53:29 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 01:43:11 EST References: <3501@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: U. of Toronto, Canada Lines: 15 Steve Perelut has recently made several references to overloaded U of T teaching machines. Just so the general audience understands, the VAX 780 which is taking 2/3 of the undergraduate ``Computing Disciplines'' students on the main campus is not overloaded, it is *broken*. We are having trouble getting it fixed because, as usual, DEC diagnostics have run without failure. At this moment, Ian Darwin and a DEC repairman are trying to get the machine to fail DEC diagnostics. One symptom of the failure could perhaps be confused with heavy load because the machine just stops running for minutes at a time and only runs for a few minutes at a time. This may seem like a local U of T argument, but the mainframe situation is not as bad as it has looked for the last week or so. Geoff Collyer, U. of Toronto Computing Services