chris@minnie.UUCP (Chris Grevstad) (07/31/86)
I have a site that wants to connect to us but they are running Santa Cruz
Operations Xenix on an AT, and I'm not sure what they will have to do to get
news to work. Any comments and suggestions would be appreciated. The same
question applies to rn.
Thanks.
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Chris Grevstad
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"Book 'em, Drano!"sewilco@mecc.UUCP (Scot E. Wilcoxon) (08/04/86)
In article <218@minnie.UUCP> chris@minnie.UUCP (Chris Grevstad) writes: >I have a site that wants to connect to us but they are running Santa Cruz >Operations Xenix on an AT, and I'm not sure what they will have to do to get >news to work. Any comments and suggestions would be appreciated. The same >question applies to rn. I'm running SCO Xenix 3.0 on an Apple Lisa. By telling news to use the USG version, it compiled and ran just fine. I'm sure it has gone on enough ATs by now that it does work. However, you should test rn, compress, and any other resource hogs. The SCO Xenix 3.0 for a Lisa with the Priam DataTower (also sold by Tecmar) has a bug which panics the system when trying to run compress and large awk scripts (apparently anything which uses lots of memory). SCO won't fix it and didn't seem to want to look at it until I pointed out that the same Priam drive also connects to IBM PCs and they might have a few more customers with similar code. I'm not worried..our new system won't use Xenix. Tech note: The error message is "panic: out of swap". The system is configured with 5M of swap and 1M RAM. Problem happens with any load, and can't be full swap because (a) system does not page, thus program is less than 800K and there's plenty of swap space and (b) the same binaries work fine in the same machine when a non-Priam version of the kernel is running [10M Profile disk with <2M swap]. -- Scot E. Wilcoxon Minn Ed Comp Corp {quest,dicome,meccts}!mecc!sewilco 45 03 N 93 08 W (612)481-3507 {{caip!meccts},ihnp4,philabs}!mecc!sewilco NASA:"Earth uninhabitable in 500 years." Welcome to tropical Minnesota.