The PAR: Very Unreliable
03-Nov-94 02:18:18
Sb: #132981-The PAR: Very Unreliable
Fm: John Redfern 100115,1014
To: Don Landis 71673,3612
You are quite right to suggest looking elsewhere. At least keep an
open mind. The trouble is when you have new (beta yet) software and
hardware and you are new to both, it is hard to locate a problem.
I've just spent the last two days with a problem of slow and
intermittent failure of file transfer from – but not to – the PAR
machine. Because this whole setup is new and to make matters
complicated, using a new Lapstation bus extender, we were sure it had
to a problem of interrupts or memory management. No, it was the
NE2000 that has been working fine for a year just decided to go ape
at that moment. Is that Murphy's or Sod's (toast always falls butter
side down) law.