VAX 780/782 FCO

[richl at penguin.UUCP]

In article <4535 at brl-adm.ARPA> bierma at nprdc.arpa writes:

> We just received an FCO from DEC for our 11/780's.  It performs an
> upgrade to "Revision 8 or 8B".  Quoting from the document
> 
> 	New FPLA pattern is required to support WCS 125 microcode.
> 	New microcode fixes problems with EDITPC EO$ADJUST_INPUT,
> 	ASHP, XFC, MOVP, CALLS/CALLG, REI, REMQUE, and RET
> 	instrustions.

It was recently installed on a Vax 780 here, with no adverse effects
yet (it's only been installed for 5 days.) Our hardware guys tell us
this is an all or nothing sort of thing anyway -- if it will fail, it
will likely fail bigtime and immediate, which it hasn't.

Rick