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Unix Technical Digest Sat, 17 May 86 Volume 3 : Issue 5 Today's Topics: Towards a user-friendly, interactive, user interface UNIX on 8200/8300/8800 - when? Wanted: Pointers to Unix hosted on IBM 4381 (like 370) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 86 22:44:41 est From: ihnp4!seismo!hadron!jsdy (Joseph S. D. Yao) Subject: Towards a user-friendly, interactive, user interface > One of the few things I miss about TOPS-20 is the interactive command >line parsing (MM is the other). ... > How to implement this on Unix? Write The Office of the Assistant to the Director, Undergraduate Science Centre, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138. The Harvard shell (hsh) did command completion for you, based on a table of known commands. It may still be available. (In > 10 years, it has surely mutated quite a bit, though.) If MM was the mail program, check out the Rand Corporation's MS or MH systems. >I think ksh already does file name completion, sorry, no. By the way, Forrest Howard was trying to push a help/options convention when he was at H.U. that may or may not have had to do with the hsh -- my memory is imperfect. Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP} ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 86 22:51:34 est From: ihnp4!seismo!hadron!jsdy (Joseph S. D. Yao) Subject: UNIX on 8200/8300/8800 - when? >A formal Digital publication stated: "Digital is commited to offering >ULTRIX on all new VAX processors". How soon is it expected to be? >How soon is Berkeley going to have 4.X bsd on the 8X00? Per the DEC announcement, Ultrix is available now on the 8200, and its release on the multi-processors depends on when they and AT&T can agree on how to license >1 processor. (This is per the person who made the announcement.) Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP} ------------------------------ Date: 7 May 1986 11:20-EST From: seismo!manheime (Ken Manheimer) Subject: Wanted: Pointers to Unix hosted on IBM 4381 (like 370) A little more than three weeks ago i posted a query to net.unix and net.wanted for pointers to (and relative merits of) Unix hosted on IBM 4381 machines. Unfortunately, during two of the intervening three weeks our connection to usenet was entirely down (due to a head crash on the spooling disk and extenuating events), so i have missed any responses that might have been sent to me. In fact, i have not received any responses. Our net contact has now stabilized. If you did send (or post) any response, i'd appreciate it very much if you would send it once again to me. I mentioned in that message that the IBM is running VM/SP, with CMS and a retinue of what are apparently standard IBM VM products (i'm only peripherally associated with the IBM), and that it's not clear what constraints we would have on configuring Unix on the machine. Incidentally, i concurrently posted a similar request for C hosted on the IBM, and the only response i've gotten so far was from a coworker here at this lab, who suggested looking into the SAS lattice C port. I've found an SAS advertisement in _The C Journal_, vol 1, # 4, Winter 1986, and am just in the process of contacting the company. Thanks for your attention..., Ken Manheimer Integrated Systems Group, Factory Automation Systems Division National Bureau of Standards UUCP: ...!seismo!nbs-amrf!manheime (`nbs-amrf.UUCP.arpa!manheime' *may* work) BELL: (301)921-2171 USmail: National Bureau of Standards; Metrology A127; Gaithersburg, MD 20899 ------------------------------ End of Unix Technical Digest ****************************** -- Ron Heiby {NAC|ihnp4}!cuae2!usenet Moderator: mod.newprod & mod.os.unix AT&T-IS, /app/eng, Lisle, IL (312) 810-6109 Submissions should go to unix@cbosgd.uucp. Comments to the moderator should go to unix-request@cbosgd.uucp. Specific replys should go to the author.