DMC/DMR11 diagnostics

[jbuck at epimass.UUCP]

In article <288 at mtxinu.UUCP> kridle at 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 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at 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.


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