Pencom CoXist crashes and locks up my hardware

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From: Dark Hacker
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 11:28

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I seem to be having a problem with PenCom's CoXist.  After running
CoXist with a large X application for say 15 minutes or so I often
get system hangs.  I mean EVERYTHING on the Cube stops.  When I
pop into the monitor or power off/reset windows with
COMMAND-power key or COMMAND-tilda or COMMAND-COMMAND-tilda
I can interact with these aids, but none of the functions work!
Halt doesn't work.  Reboot doesn't work.

In other words I can't reboot or shut down my machine from the monitor,
or any other window.  My hardware is locked up tight.  The only thing
that fixes this is turning off the power from the wall and turning it
back on which forces a reboot (obviously).  I dislike this option
because I suspect its hard on the hardware.

So does anyone have any suggestions on what the problem could be and
why CoXist hoses over the hardware so badly?

- Hacker
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Dark Hacker @ Black Silicon, Fortress Of Computation
8340 Greensboro Drive #223  Phone: (703) 356-6514
McLean VA                   Uucp: mimsy!kzin!speaker

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From: hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker)
Subject: Pencom CoXist crashes and locks up my hardware
Message-ID: <1992Sep29.112845.26550@access.digex.com>
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 11:28:45 GMT
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