jaw@ames.UUCP (James A. Woods) (08/20/85)
# "there was a rumor, about a tumor, nestled at the base of his brain." -- the ballad of charles whitman, k. friedman to save on systems administration costs, all u. c. berkeley departmental, student (evans hall), and comp center vaxen are slated for conversion from bsd 4.2 to dec ultrix. research (csrg) machines choosing to run 4.3 are exempt from this directive. ames!jaw
peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (08/21/85)
> student (evans hall), and comp center vaxen are slated for conversion > from bsd 4.2 to dec ultrix. research (csrg) machines choosing to run 4.3 > are exempt from this directive. > > ames!jaw Wouldn't surprise me. It took the Comp Center forever to upgrade to V7... they still had a V5 machine running in 1981. -- Peter (Made in Australia) da Silva UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076
anton@ucbvax.ARPA (Jeff Anton) (08/23/85)
In article <1094@ames.UUCP> jaw@ames.UUCP (James A. Woods) writes: ># "there was a rumor, about a tumor, nestled at the base of his brain." > -- the ballad of charles whitman, k. friedman > >to save on systems administration costs, all u. c. berkeley departmental, >student (evans hall), and comp center vaxen are slated for conversion >from bsd 4.2 to dec ultrix. research (csrg) machines choosing to run 4.3 >are exempt from this directive. > > ames!jaw That's a good one, I suppose you have a bridge to sell also! It might be true for the computer center here, but the CS, EECS, and some other misc. departments are smarter than that. Costs of running machines here is high only because of the number of them. The comp. center loves IBM so they can do what they please. A neat utility called rdist allows many machines to be automagically updated with bug fixes and extentions. Better to fix a bug yourself then wait for DEC which I've heard puts something like "This system call not supported by DEC" on all the system call man pages. Can you imagine not supporting fork? Of course, this is all rumors. -- C knows no bounds. Jeff Anton U.C.Berkeley ucbvax!anton anton@berkeley.ARPA
jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes) (08/29/85)
In article <1094@ames.UUCP> jaw@ames.UUCP (James A. Woods) writes: >to save on systems administration costs, all u. c. berkeley departmental, >student (evans hall), and comp center vaxen are slated for conversion >from bsd 4.2 to dec ultrix. research (csrg) machines choosing to run 4.3 >are exempt from this directive. Hmmm... well, no one here is running 4.2 (well, almost no one...), but I heard that we were getting a bunch of uVAXen ]['s, and there's been no talk of a 4.3 port ot it, so I assume that they will run ultrix... ------------ Jordan Hayes jordan@UCB-VAX.BERKELEY.EDU UC Berkeley ucbvax!jordan +1 (415) 835-8767 37' 52.29" N 122' 15.41" W (oops. I guess this posting calls for a disclaimer...)