john@zentec.UUCP (John Weeks) (06/21/84)
Does anyone know if 4.2bsd runs on a VAX/730 (small but cheap) ? If so,
will it support 2-3 users in a cross development environme ? Any info
would be welcomed.
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John Weeks (408) 727-7662
{ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amd70!znetec!johnacheng@uiucdcs.UUCP (06/22/84)
#R:zentec:-3100:uiucdcs:39300011:000:259 uiucdcs!acheng Jun 22 11:29:00 1984 According to the distribution documents, 4.2bsd can be loaded onto 730, 750 and 780. We don't have any 730's to try. From the experience of loading 4.2 onto our 750's and 780's, it should not be hard to put it on the 730. albert cheng ihnp4!uiucdcs!acheng
goldfarb@ucf-cs.UUCP (Ben Goldfarb Esq.) (06/25/84)
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We have 4.2 running on a 730 here and I'm sorry we do, since 4.2 is verrry
slow on that machine, much slower than 4.1. I don't have a benchmark, but
it takes about a minute to log in to a very lightly loaded system (i.e.,
one user).
I'd be glad to give more gory details to any who is interested.
But, I'll tell you that installation is no problem whatsoever -- 4.2
just drops right in.
Ben Goldfarb
{duke,decvax}!ucf-cs!goldfarb
goldfarb.ucf-cs@csnet-relayrichl@daemon.UUCP (06/26/84)
Not only can it be done, but we did it without a tape drive! (We had a
bare-bones 730). We use the rdump and rrestore heavily. It is on
ethernet.
However, the load average jumps to 1 the instant somebody logs on. It
took 3 hrs to compile a kernel in single user (takes maybe 25 minutes
on a 780, for those of you without source licenses). It does not seem
real useful as a any-user machine. It might be of some use as a daemon
machine: network, mail, or news gateway, printer server, something like
that. Maybe as a single user machine.
Rick Lindsley
richl@tektronix
...!{allegra,ihnp4,decvax}!tektronix!richldan@SRI-TSC.ARPA (06/27/84)
From: Dan Chernikoff <dan@SRI-TSC.ARPA> We are running 4.2BSD on two VAX 11/730's. They are basically a one- or two-user machine. VERY SLOW. Not much disk in the default versions. Whatever you do, do NOT get the dual-rl02 version! Get the r80, both for speed and disk space. We are running with only 1 Mb of memory -- hopefully it performs better with 2M. To give you an idea of how slow it is, it takes us about 30 seconds to log in. I tracked the speed problem down to where login runs the crypt subroutine. Takes about 20 seconds to encrypt a password string (sigh)! -Dan