MacIvory FEP diagnostics
A quick note to try to make this information available on the net. Trying to troubleshoot my Symbolics MacIvory, where my Quadra 900 was encountering bus errors from time-to-time and, at least once, Genera spammed me with tens of thousands of notifications about low-level drawing operations gone bad, I wanted to exercise the NuBus memory card (a National Semiconductor NS 8/16 with only 8 MB of RAM). The FEP ("Front End Processor") contains a memory test routine, but it has to be explicitly loaded. FEP Command: is the prompt that shows you are talking to the "MacIvory FEP"; in the "Ivory" menu of the Genera application, you should be able to "Transfer to the FEP". The FEP prompt responds to the "help" key, by the way, and has commands like " Show Command Tree" that shows the loaded commands. FEP commands themselves are stored in .FLOD files . Show Directory FEP0:>*.FLOD.newest will list them. " I328- ...