[Info-vax] QIO Writes to a mailbox

[Steven Schweda]

On Nov 4, 5:04 am, Steve Bainbridge <stephen_bainbri... at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> I have a very simple question, but when looking at the Alpha internals
> manual and talking to colleagues the answer does not seem so obvious.
> [...]
> Unfortunately the writer does not check or report what value the IOSB
> returns [...]

   I'm confused.  You _know_ that you're ignoring the IOSB
status, and, rather than fixing that, you're looking at "the
Alpha internals manual"?  Really?

> Is it QIO or QIOW? [...]

   Another fair question.

   Why not start by fixing the obvious problems, and then
move on to the obscure stuff (if necessary)?