mp@ganehd.UUCP (Scott Barman @ Univ. of Ga.) (05/05/84)
<Bugs like these keeps systems programmers employed> Recently, I have found out that the Computer Science Department at the University of Georgia (my employer) is getting a machine from Harris Corp. From the word I get, I heard it was a Harris 800. Can anyone out there in netland give me any information on this computer, or others in the Harris line. What I need to know is performance, architecture, software it runs (i.e.: does Harris have UN*X for it), etc. Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!! If there is enough interest, I will post a summary of what I get. Thanks in advance! Scott A. Barman UUCP: ..!akgua!ganehd!mp USPS: Department of Computer Science The University of Georgia 415 Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center Athens, Ga 30602 AT&T: (404) 542-2911
ron@brl-vgr.UUCP (05/08/84)
The Harris while seemingly a reasonably priced and performing machine is wierd. The architecture is incredibly strange and the 24 bit word size doesn't help. Harris does have a C compiler for it but they don't plan on really doing UNIX for it. There network plans include NETIX (NSC Hyperchannel) but not TCP/IP. Their current operating system VULCAN looks like something from the sixties. It is even less usable than EXEC8. -Ron
louie@cvl (05/09/84)
And to prepare a program for execution, you use the VULCANIZE program. No
kidding..
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