Re:
> For an old-time
> HP3000 user, like me, who has been "taught" to get things dead right the
> first time, with every decimal point and underscore in its proper place, or
> suffer the consequences of having the machine crashing mysteriously, the
> ability to stick in any name you want for the disc driver field in SYSGEN and
> have the MPE ignore what you type in and then have MPE work it out properly
> has to what you "meant to say" is a new world order for someone who was
> brought up under MPE/V.

I agree!

I think that he reason it works for SCSI disk drives is that SCSI drives can be
interrogated, and their size determined by the computer.  Given that,
I'm actually a bit disappointed that we have more than *one* SYSGEN ID
for SCSI disk drives ("SCSIDISK", or some such).

:)

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