[Info-vax] OT: book from George Dyson.

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-04-13 15:10, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<6fdj59-82h.ln1 at news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture<paul at sture.ch>  writes:
>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:14:58 -0700, John Wallace wrote:
>>
>> Bringing us back to the VAX world, someone contacted me offline with the
>> following:
>>
>> --- quote ---
>>  From the VAX-11/780 console:
>>
>>>>> SET CLOCK FAST
>>
>> SLOW and NORMAL were also supported.
>>
>
>     Anyone who actually bothered to type "HELP" at the console was aware
>     of this.  And one way or the other, aware that some things just
>     didn't work right when FAST.

The commands also exists on the VAX 86x0 machines. In a late update to 
microcode and console software, it was extended to actually allow you to 
give the actual frequency you wanted as an argument to SET CLOCK, and 
SLOW, NORMAL and FAST are just three pre-defined frequencies that have 
aliases.

	Johnny

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