dave@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (Dave Marquardt) (01/15/87)
We are trying to decide whether to purchase Mt. Xinu 4.3 BSD+NFS or DEC's
ULTRIX, so I am looking for comments about these products, good or bad.
Also, if you've used both products, I'd be very interested in comparisons.
We are especially interested in knowing what kind of support we can expect
from Mt. Xinu or DEC. Please respond by mail. Thanks in advance.
Dave Marquardt
Rosemount, Inc.
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Eden Prairie, MN 55344mb@ttidca.UUCP (Michael Bloom) (01/17/87)
In article <822@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> dave@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (Dave Marquardt) writes: >We are trying to decide whether to purchase Mt. Xinu 4.3 BSD+NFS or DEC's >ULTRIX, so I am looking for comments about these products, good or bad. We did a study before making our decision, and checked many references. Most sites with Mt. Xinu seemed to be satisfied customers, while many sites with Ultrix wished they had More/BSD. Our experience with Mt. Xinu has been mostly good. Just prior to the release of 4.3, support for 4.2 kind of slowed down, but was still there. We had a major problem that was the result of a coding error in NFS that was SUN's fault, and appears in just about every vendor's release of NFS. This would result in corruption of data on the NFS client side. Mt. Xinu shipped us a fix by uucp the same day they fixed it on their own systems. If we had been dealing with DEC we might have had to wait several months before the fix had been properly packaged in the next update, and had migrated its way to the shipping docks. I'd say the choice is easy. Go with Mt. Xinu.
parker@mprvaxa.UUCP (Ross Parker) (05/03/87)
Can anyone out there let me in on the relative merits of Mt. Xinu 4.3 unix with NFS versus Ultrix? We are currently running Ultrix 1.2 (and waiting for 2.0). I am interested in finding out the differences between the two (other than the fact that Ultrix is a 4.2 clone versus Mt. Xinu's 4.3), and whether Mt. Xinu offers support (or if anyone other than DEC does) for: - DECserver 200's (DEC's ethernet terminal servers) - DECnet (we need to communicate with the VMS world also... argh!) The machines are Microvax II's (8 or 10 of them... I lose count! :-), some running Ultrix, some VMS. One problem with Ultrix is that we currently don't have source, and it is horrendously expensive (around $22,000 CDN - on top of the AT&T licence). I would imagine that Mt. Xinu is cheaper. It would be *really* nice to have source, but 22 grand is a bit much. If anyone has any comments/opinions about either Mt. Xinu or Ultrix, drop me a line via email. I will summarize the responses I get to the net, in case anyone else is interested. Thanks all, -- Ross Parker ...ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!mprg!parker | Any resemblance to any Microtel Pacific Research Ltd. | person, living or dead, Burnaby, B.C., | is purely coincidental. Canada, eh? | Unless I really meant it.