ian@utcs.UUCP (Ian F. Darwin) (11/03/84)
From: jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro)
Subject: Re: MicroVax TCP/IP ?
Eunice might not be available, and almost certainly wouldn't work
anyway (voice of bitter experience). Your best bet is to pester DEC
until they admit that unisoft runs on the microvax. Unisoft is DEC's
edition of 4.1 BSD.
I'm sure Mr. Shapiro knows this and has just had a slip of the tongue (keys?):
UniSoft has nothing to do with DEC!!!
DEC's implementation of 4.2BSD for the VAX family is called ULTRIX-32.
Quoting DEC:
"The ULTRIX product family consists of the ULTRIX-32 (VAX),
ULTRIX-11 (PDP-11) and VENIX (Professional 350 and Rainbow)
operating systems."
from the ULTRIX Software Guidebook, DEC p/n EJ-26153-20, first
edition, page V.
UniSoft is a company in Berkeley which ports UNIX to the 68000.
Most of the 68000 ports on the market either are UniSoft ports
or were originally. UniSoft's port is called "UniPlus+", a nice
pun if you know the C language.
DEC and ULTRIX (but not ULTRIX-32 nor ULTRIX-11 per se) are
trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation. UniSoft and UniPlus+
are trademarks of UniSoft of Berkeley. VENIX is a trademark
(I think) of Venturecom, in Massachusetts. And UNIX, as we
well know, is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Just trying to keep the record straight.
--
Ian Darwin, Toronto
{ihnp4|decvax}!utcs!ian
69:79:82:5:y:y:realV7,4.2,unisoftV:UNIX,writer,C,university,S-100jss@sjuvax.UUCP (Jonathan Shapiro) (11/13/84)
[Aren't you hungry...?] Indeed it was a slip of the tongue, and I see that I did not recall all of the groups I posted it to in my correction. Please accept my apologies. Unisoft is *not* what I wanted - Ultrix *is*. The correction I sent out in other groups also said: A person at DEC to contact (apparently many people have had problems getting DEC to admit to the existence of Ultrix) who is suggesting this solution for a local site's needs is: Michael Gottobi DEC 1740 Walton Road Bluebell, Pa. 19422-2388 (215) 825-4200 This is not intended as advertisement - I have no affiliation with DEC except for qualms over VMS and respect for good hardware. Many people have had trouble getting information, however so I thought I would pass this on. Jon Shapiro