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The real realtime preemption end game

The real realtime preemption end game

Posted Nov 17, 2023 5:51 UTC (Fri) by donald.buczek (subscriber, #112892)
In reply to: The real realtime preemption end game by areilly
Parent article: The real realtime preemption end game

Nothing tops the feeling when a bugcheck on vax/vms system causes all these hex dumps to be printed slowly and noisily to the paper of your hardcopy console. Physical printout and slowness signifies importance while stackdumps with hex values signify secret knowledge. This is not for mortals.

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The real realtime preemption end game

Posted Nov 17, 2023 6:23 UTC (Fri) by donald.buczek (subscriber, #112892) [Link]

Oh, and of course everybody had to wait for you, while you carefully read through the secret scripture, which nobody but you could understand, until you decide to enter "b <ret>", which initiated thr printing of another few pages of startup messages during the next 10 minutes :-)


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