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To: rudedog who wrote (32754)	9/12/1998 10:55:00 AM
From: Senator949	Read Replies (1) of 97611

CPQ and Intel have been working for a while on a chipset standard which would allow a remote access (via either modem or web) even when the machine is 'down'.............. Why all the hype on this? This is old obsolete technology. I'm afraid I'll age myself here, but DEC had this back in 77-78 time frame with the remote access console on the PDP 11/70 as the first and it was available from day one on the first VAX 11/780. These remote access features were discontinued years ago do to the fact that all intermittent failures could be diagnosed from the running system though hardware error logs or memory dumps from crashes. As for having down system access it was found unnecessary as the diagnostics were always good enough to get a downed system diagnosed and running. On second thought the PDP 11/70 may not have been the first. I don't know much about DEC 10 or DEC 20 history so it is possible they may have been using this technology on those even before the 11/70. Robin

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