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From: geoff@utcsstat.UUCP (Geoffrey Collyer)
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Subject: Re: First Summary of PC's in Education Survey
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Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 00:53:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 13 00:53:29 1984
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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