scowles@lll-lcc.aRpA (Sid Cowles) (07/27/87)
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i am considering using the integral as my primary office machine but
am reluctant to do so because of the many facilities in hp-ux that are not
'supported' on it (e.g. cdb/fdb/pdb, bs, cron and many of the programs that
depend on it). is there a hard reason why an ipc with a large disk drive
(maybe a 7958 or 7936) and many of the utilities from hp-ux 2.3 would not
be a workable system? mips and disk access times are not the major
concern, here. rather, the motivation is to use the ipc in the office as
the secondary, local cruncher, primary terminal/communications node, and
take-home machine. isn't it possible to get around the obvious directory
dependencies by using chroot for specific utilities? i've verified that
some of the utilities from hp-ux 2.3 work fine in this manner by taking
chroot from hp-ux 2.3 and trying it on the integral.
i've tried a few times now to get answers to this general question
without success. i'm hoping that some of the people who are familiar with
the ipc may be able to shed some non-proprietary light on it. wouldn't it
increase the appeal of the integral if it had some of these facilities that
many of us rely on heavily (e.g. system polling for uucp depends on cron
invoking uudemon.hr, etc.)?
any information would be greatly appreciated.
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