stan%rice@sri-unix.UUCP (03/15/84)
From: Stan Hanks <stan@rice> Here at Rice we have a PDP-11/44 that is about to drive us nuts. We are attempting to run V7 on it, but continually have a series of strange problems that greatly impair its usefulness -- indeed a large problem as it is the sole computational resource for the machine architecture/assembly language programming course. The problems vary, but basicly the machine crashes about every six hours when run with any kind of load at all. The reason for the crash varies. Also, it tends to randomly lose it's mind and forget about large numbers of blocks in the free list -- worst I ever saw was once when it "forgot" about more blocks on /tmp than the partition had to begin with. Anyway, we are looking for help. In particular, we are looking for a kernel that is *KNOWN* to run on an 11/44 without floating point, preferably with RK07 disks. We are licensed to run V6 (yek!), V7, and 2.8bsd. Any of the above would be acceptible, but I would prefer a 2.8 system over a V7 system over a V6 system (unless it's the BBN guy with TCP/IP). We are also liscensed for 32V, 4.0bsd, and 4.1bsd, in case any of those are needed. Any help is greatly apprecitated. And yes, we are investigating the possibilty it is a hardware problem. Please reply directly to me, and I will summarize for the net if anything worthwhile pops up. Thanks much. Stan Hanks Department of Computer Science Rice University Houston TX stan@rice (arpanet) stan.rice@rand-relay (broken arpa mailers) stan@rice (csnet) ...!lbl-csam!rice!stan (uucp)