dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize) (08/05/88)
Hi all, We may be looking at getting in some new machines here to replace or augment our Pr1me machines that we've had for a long, LONG time. However, in addition to all the software conversion you would expect, we have a real problem with tapes! As a software company, we have always strived to produce distribution tapes in the 'native' form of the various customers we have - and this has included machines like IBM with os's like MVS. This can produce some tape blocks of quite sizable length. On the Pr1mes, you pay Pr1me very large sums of money and they make mods to the operating system that almost work so you can write the tapes. The question is, though, are we going to run into this same level of incompatability with various *nix machines? (I'm asking about pyramid, but info on DEC, HP, or Sun would be helpful too, especially if the answer is something like 'all ya gotta do is'. If you have general info that might be of interest, please followup to comp.sys.pyramid, if you just have (just have? Ha!) some technical info that isn't likely to be exciting to anyone by me, please respond via email. Thanks in much advance, Dewey -- =============================================================================== | execu!dewey Dewey Henize @ Execucom Systems Corp 512/346-3008 | | You don't think my employer APPROVES of these ideas, do you?? Sheesh! | ===============================================================================