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The PAR: Very Unreliable

    03-Nov-94 02:18:18
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.