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17-Dec-82 16:16:46-EST,1407;000000000000 Date: 17 December 1982 16:16-EST From: Patrick G. Sobalvarro <PGS at MIT-ML> Subject: Vrooom!, or, Turbo-CADR-19 To: BUG-HARDWARE at MIT-ML cc: HOPELESS-DREAM-KEEPERS-OF-INTERGALACTIC-SPACE at MIT-ML CADR-19 is still living in the fast lane. The idle time in the wholine changes by 40 hours per 3 seconds. The blinkers are doing their pathetic best to keep up. Needless to say, it can't establish any Chaos connections in this state -- they time out in a few nanoseconds. It calmed down for a little while yesterday when Krymm came into the room, said a few words, and passed his hands over the console. I took advantage of the intermission to bring over a working system from CADR-30, but as soon as Krymm left the room it started speeding again. Anyway, the clock in the who-line seems to be keeping more or less normal time, but (process-sleep 6000.) seems not to sleep at all. I'm a little worried about the long-term effects of this lack of sleep on the processor. CADR-19 could be reduced to a burned-out shadow of its former self, wandering around the network asking other processors for the time, but never able to keep its attention on them long enough to find out the answer. P.S. Whoever fixes this, please contact me. I have a friend I'd like you to take a look at. Pat