[Info-vax] DECnet Phase IV broken after VSI update

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Sat Nov 6 08:18:07 EDT 2021


On 11/5/21 9:39 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 11/5/2021 7:59 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Saturday, November 6, 2021 at 5:11:39 AM UTC+13, Bill Gunshannon 
>> wrote:
>>> The only time I ever saw that happen on a VAX was when I was using
>>> EUNICE and someone else fired up the ADA Compiler. :-)
>>
>> NYU Ada/Ed, I believe it was called? Written in SETL, and interpreted? 
>> And your programs were also compiled to SETL?
>>
>> The one where, when your program hit an error, it took about 60 
>> seconds† just to crash?
>>
>> †I timed it.
> 
> VAX Ada seems more likely.
> 

Don't remember which Ada it was.  One of the first validated Ada
Compilers.  After all, this was around 1981.

bill




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