Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cuae2!codas!mtune!jhc From: jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: DEC error messages (was foo?) Message-ID: <973@mtune.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Dec-86 22:44:27 EST Article-I.D.: mtune.973 Posted: Tue Dec 23 22:44:27 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 24-Dec-86 18:47:30 EST References: <246@polyslo.UUCP> <5426@brl-smoke.ARPA> <159@andromeda.UUCP> <89@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <584@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Reply-To: jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA Lines: 14 In article <584@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes: >By the way, wharf rat isn't joking about the DEC meaning. VAXen really >do have a failed UNIbus address register, and the documentation (eg, >the architecture reference manual) really does call it the FUBAR. Absolutely true. DEC do have a sense of humour with their error messages though - anyone else remember the RSX-11M error IE.NFW? The error message manual gave it as 'Path lost to partner'. Also true. -- Jonathan Clark [NAC,attmail]!mtune!jhc My walk has become rather more silly lately.