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On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Mike Meyer wrote:

> I had an 11/750 that ran BSD 4.2 for years with no problems. When I 
> tried to upgrade it to BSD 4.3, it would reliably panic in namei during 
> the boot process. We had about a dozen 750s, and this was our test 
> machine - so none of them were going to be upgraded until this got 
> fixed, deadline or no.

Heh.  We had a PDP-11/40 running Edition 6, and it was unable to use the 
"overlapped seeks" feature of the RK-11 controller, so of course Unix got 
blamed by DEC.  Turned out that DEC OSs (RSX, RSTS etc) never used that 
feature, and an FCO was necessary to fix it.

-- Dave