gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP (01/28/87)
In article <288@mtxinu.UUCP> kridle@mtxinu.UUCP (Bob kridle) writes: >a DEC DMC11 and discovered it would pass the external loopback test >without having the loopback installed! If so, it's not the only one. A very good DEC Field Service person I once knew had the theory that DEC diagnostics were designed to convince the customer that his newly-delivered equipment was working just fine so that he would sign off on it. This person was only partly jesting.. The other fun thing is knowing which "spurious" reported problems (due to bugs in the diagnostics themselves) can be safely ignored. Not to pick on DEC; I've seen this elsewhere too.
jbuck@epimass.UUCP (01/30/87)
In article <288@mtxinu.UUCP> kridle@mtxinu.UUCP (Bob kridle) writes: >>a DEC DMC11 and discovered it would pass the external loopback test >>without having the loopback installed! In article <5577@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes: >If so, it's not the only one. A very good DEC Field Service person >I once knew had the theory that DEC diagnostics were designed to >convince the customer that his newly-delivered equipment was working >just fine so that he would sign off on it. This person was only >partly jesting.. Heard at the Usenix conference (though it's apparently an old joke): DEC diagnostics would run on a beached whale. -- - Joe Buck {hplabs,ihnp4,sun,ames}!oliveb!epimass!jbuck HASA (A,S) Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, California