On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:35:30 -0700 (PWT) 
 Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:

 > After updating an alphastation 600 system with 19990325 Alpha snapshot,
 > the hang no longer occurs. This may explain why some people were not able
 > to reproduce the problem. The previous contents of the system had been a
 > working build of February 25 or thereabouts.

My kernels are Really Current (today's sources) and March 15 binaries.  I
have never been able to reproduce the "hang".

 > This does have some implications for COMPAT_13. I'd be curious to hear
 > other experiences with this.

...well, that's ... unclear, considering that you never pinpointed exactly
what the problem was.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>