I hope this isn't completely uninteresting
to everyone.
Long ago I mentioned a problem with the Ethernet
connection failing. The time from system
startup to failure of the connection appeared
to be distributed from a few minutes to several
hours; could be Poisson. Swapping parts between
two machines demonstrates that the problem is
associated with a specific system board.
Since wiggling some of the socket mounted chips
a few days ago, the connection has failed only
once. The failure of the clock to report
any year other than 2094 also suggests a hardware
problem.
So I've concluded that the Oberon 3Com driver is
fine and the time has come to get a better
system board.
Regards, P.
http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/
