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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Laziness doesn’t pay ….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>For checking the DMR behavior I resorted to the 703 image distributed on the net.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The fact that the DMR version V022 didn’t line out with the monitor version 703, to search for all versions of D8RINT in the archives; a few were found.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Since some distrust arose, I decided to stay at the safe side and to create a fresh 703 image with Decnet from the “ officially” published distribution media.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>There then surfaces a version V016 of D8RINT which matches the 703 monitor; thus the published 703 medium (PaulAllen’s) is somewhat spoiled with respect to version consistency.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The D8RINT V016 compiles and links without flaw in a generated 703 monitor system, but it crashes in the same place in DEFCIR under the same conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Applying the same fix for it – insert a JCFL 0 noop before the status check nullifying the skip return - as with 704 leads to the same ultimate termination, in this case stopcode IME.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>At least here, there is no race condition with respect to Unibus mapping so that error in 704 is avoided.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It is probably created when startup components were integrated in one SYSINI module in 704.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>If that problem is tentatively fixed in the SYSINI in version 704 there is the same kind of error as in 703.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Further stepping back to Tops10-702 at the moment seems to be not possible as there currently are no 702 distribution media present. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>