Re: F$GETSYI("TEMPERATURE_VECTOR") questions

In article <45C7E13E.FD345D26@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David J Dachtera
<djesys.no@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Stephen Hoffman wrote:

JF Mezei wrote:
The "Ask the Wizard" on the HP web site has an entry dated 2001 stating
explicitely that obaining system temperature is strictly undocumented.

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_6456.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

Is this still the case, or was a decision made to document it ?

People think I'm joking when I've commented there are folks looking
for documentation on undocumented features.

I'm not sniping at you, Hoff - you just happen to be in the line of fire.
Please
stand aside at this time...

When folks ask for documentation of the undocumented, that's called a "userland
request for new features".

This particular new feature request needs to be directed at the
Alphaserver hardware support folks, as has been pointed out before.

VMS can only return the data that's made available by the firmware and
hardware. VMS can't attach any real-world significance to the data
returned.
.

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