[HECnet] Another TOPS-10 DECnet problem

On Nov 11, 2021, at 2:29 PM, Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net> wrote: Paul, Don?t you mean 600 logged OUT students? -Steve SF:IP2 > On Nov 11, 2021, at 13:45, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote: > > ? > >> On Nov 11, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Thomas DeBellis <tommytimesharing at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> ... >> 100 students? That's all? Heh... I can't even remember how many we had online with six 20's, but it didn't matter. If one of them went out, you got your choice of machine room phone color: bright red hot or white hot. Been there, done that. Glad I'm not doing it any more. > > Indeed. I still remember the blistering I got (in 1977) when I added a new feature and the result was a system crash (buffer overflow due to falling behind) in the middle of the day, at max load. Max load was 600 logged-in students. Ouch. > > paul > >