On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:12:54PM -0700, Carlini, Antonio wrote:
>
> particular steps to prevent it) random glitches and so forth
> appear on the line. The UART (sometimes) interprets this junk
> as a BREAK. So sometimes when you power off a terminal,
> the attached VAX may halt. There is nothing you can configure
> on the terminal (of which I am aware) that will have 
> any effect on this.

is there a way to sidestep this in software? i know on Solaris/SPARC you can
tell the OS not to drop to the rom on a BREAK, so at least on the sparc
hardware it's possible for the OS to intercede the rom.  can the same sort of
thing be done with the VAXen?

just a thought.

-brian