EDINBURGH REGIONAL COMPUTING CENTRE

For the attention of the Edinburgh Computer Users' Committee

                         Report on Communications

CPSEs

  KB CPSE 1

  There is still a disappointing rate of software crashes on this machine,
  currently about 1 per week.  GEC has given us new software which fixed
  some of the older faults but there has been a numbner of crashes all
  caused by the same fault.  GEC have promised a fix for this fault.

  AT CPSE

  There have been two software crashes since the previous report.

  KB CPSE 2

  This CPSE was upgraded on the 9th March to a more modern processor and
  extra lines were installed.  There have been no crashes since.

TCPs

A new release with 'Lower' as default as well as 'GVME' omitted (as
announced in the Newsletter), is due to go in within the next week.

PADs

The dial up lines were moved from TCP-S to a PAD on the 9th March.  Apart
from Pentlandfield, which is still causing some problems, the position with
PADs is satisfactory.  There is now a version of SCREED which runs on Hazeltine
Esprits on the PAD.

FEPs

After some problems, mainly caused by FTP problems, in the middle of the
term, the position is stable.

PSSE

PSSE was successfully moved to X25 on March 11th, since then it has 
performed reliably.

XCALL

There have been a few crashes but all the faults causing them have been
cleared.




                                                           B. A. C. Gilmore
                                                           15th April 1985.