crowley@astroatc.UUCP (Sam Crowley) (10/03/86)
Hello world,
We are currently awaiting an Opus board to be shipped to us
for evaluation and we would like to hear about other peoples experience
with it or the Oasis board. Any information about performance, bugs,
etc would be appreciated. For those of you wondering what I am talking
about, the Oasis and Opus boards use the NS 32016 chip and plug into a PC
AT allowing it to run System V UNIX from the Deathstar.
Sam Crowley
uwvax!astroatc!crowleyggw@ethos.UUCP (Gregory Woodbury) (10/09/86)
dukcds (a silent leaf under ethos) is an OPUS 5.16 system running the
C2 release of the Opus System V.2.2 Unix port. The system is well integrated
with the underlying PC/AT and MS-DOS (all I/O is done by the 80286) and there
are various methods for accessing DOS files from Unix and vice-versa.
There are, however, a few problems yet in the system. NROFF/TROFF are not
provided as part of the baseline system (extra fee unknown) and the bloody
SDB (symbolic debugger) doesn't work correctly [only one level of function
stack available and some names don't work]. Also, the claims of concurrent
operation with DOS is limited to Unix processes which do not access the disk.
UUCP site names are limited (apparently) to 6 characters.
Other than these few problems I am quite happy with the system. We use the
OPUS board to do numerical analysis that was formerly done on a mainframe
(approx $5.00/run vs. $5000.00/run). I miss a few of the BSD enhancements
that are available on some systems, but life is definitely bearable.
We are using an IOMEGA 10+10 Bernoulli Box as mounted filesystems and can
optionally mount a 1.2MB floppy if required.
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