leonard@acf4.UUCP (shanna leonard) (01/13/87)
(appropriate apologies if this has already been discussed, I only recently discovered this newslist) Here at NYU we have about 40 3b2's which we would like to network with other existing computers, using TCP/IP. We have found however, that although TCP/IP WIN works (more or less) under sysV 2.0, it crashes a sysV 3.0 system. We could stick with 2.0, but then the Fortran compiler wont work. any solutions? Shanna Leonard Courant Institute/New York University
bsteve@gorgo.UUCP (01/14/87)
>Here at NYU we have about 40 3b2's which we would like to network with >other existing computers, using TCP/IP. We have found however, that although >TCP/IP WIN works (more or less) under sysV 2.0, it crashes a sysV 3.0 system. >We could stick with 2.0, but then the Fortran compiler wont work. There are two possible fixes... There is a new release of TCP/IP that should be out now or coming out very soon that runs under release 3. It was totally rewritten using SVR3 streams, and is a much better (faster) implementation. There is also a version of the fortran compiler that will run on release 2 machines (actually there are 2). The first is the traditional UNIX F77 compiler which does not support the FPA on the 3B2 (if that is important to you), the second is Command Fortran, which is a portable compiler that generates C as intermediate code. I have not used the Command Fortran compiler, but can vouch for quality and portability of other of their language products. Hope this helps, Steve Blasingame bsteve@eris.berkeley.edu ihnp4!occrsh!gorgo!bsteve