Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <3e4d8e9e$0$198$75868355@news.frii.net>,  <rmk@rmkhome.com> wrote:
>In alt.folklore.computers Matthew Russotto <russotto@grace.speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
>> I admined a few.  I got to know the flashing '888' (AIX equivalent of
>> a kernel panic) very well. Granted, this was back under AIX 3.1.x
>
>Actually, "888" is basically unknown error.

IIRC, 888 was almost any error.  You'd get other codes along with the 888 if
the system knew what happened.  
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Matthew T. Russotto                            mrussotto@speakeasy.net
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