Msg: 6574 *Conference*
06-01-96 08:35:01
From: RICHARD HANSON
To : TILDEN GASPARD,JR.
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #6571 (DISCONNECTED)
I really appreciated reading your concerneds about dropping carrier. Allow me to assure you that dropping carrier happens all the time, for a wide variety of reasons. And, many, many years ago, we sysops and host software designers wrote recovery solutions into our programs. Dropped carriers have not been a problem for a long time. There was a time, I recall, back in the late 70's - early 80's when dropped carriers (...heck, almost anything) caused the host to cough and die. I clearly recall rebuilding the file allocation table in HEX when this service was run on a Model III under NewDOS80 and TBBS. The TBBS part ran flawlessly, as it always does, but the Z80 chip and perpherials of the Model III, being "pushed" by NewDOS80, was just not up to the task. A caller would drop carrier, the hardware would not respond fast enough to close the file and update the file allocation table within the time settings of the DOS and ... ALL STOP! Throughout the day, I would go into the lab/office and look over at the machine. I always knew when it was ... crashed! It had that ... dead look. :) I did learn to speak a foregn languarge, however ... Sie sa habla HEX!