[comp.unix.questions] Ultrix 2.0 vs. MtXinu 4.3BSD ?

dan@rna.UUCP (02/21/87)

	We are trying to decide whether to go with Ultrix 2.0 or Mt Xinu's
4.3BSD + NFS. Any opinions out there ?

	Both have NFS, support for MicroVAX II, source available for
reasonable price to universities (all these points are important to us.)

	It is unclear how much of the 4.3BSD enhancements (e.g. in performance,
networking, etc.) are included in Ultrix 2.0 . It seems clear that Ultrix 2.0
has better Microvax II support (as well as other VAX cpu's like the 8???'s) and
that Ultrix 2.0 has some of the System V stuff (like shared memory, which is
nice).

	Any thoughts ? Thanks.
					Cheers,
					Dan Ts'o
					Dept. Neurobiology
					Rockefeller Univ.
					1230 York Ave.
					NY, NY 10021
					212-570-7671
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zemon@felix.UUCP (02/25/87)

In article <606@rna.UUCP> dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) writes:
>
>	We are trying to decide whether to go with Ultrix 2.0 or Mt Xinu's
>4.3BSD + NFS. Any opinions out there ?

Ultrix does not have any XNS stuff in it.  There may be
other omissions of which I am unaware.  We will be
installing Ultrix v2.0 on an 8700 in the near future.  Ask
me in a month or two for further opinions.
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