[Info-vax] MACHINECHK on my XP900...

[R.A.Omond]

On 13/02/2011 16:48, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> [...snip...]
>
> The temp can be read from within VMS, and it gives another value:
>
> $ temp = f$getsyi("temperature_vector")
> $ sh sym temp
> TEMP = "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF38"
> $
>
> The last two chars is the temp in degC, 38 is a rather
> sensible value.
>
> I made a quick shutdown to re-check the value in console mode
> and it still says "Current ambient temperature is 56 degrees C".
>
> Weird...

Nope, not weird.  The 38 above is hex, and is 56 degrees (decimal).

But you probably figured that out by now ;-)