jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) (08/09/87)
I've got a Vaxstation II, a Vaxstation 2000 and a Sun 3/50 (w/ tape and 86MB disk) forming a small cluster. The II and the 2000 both have monochrome qvss displays (actually, I suppose it's not right to call the display on the 2000 a qvss display, since it has no Q-bus but it *acts* like a qvss. so...). The 3/50 has its standard Sun display.. They all, of course, run X.. Here's the question.. The uVaxen run Ultrix 2.0, the sun runs 3.3.. This is fine and dandy, but what I'd *really* like is to run *ONE* OS for all three.. It's probably way too much to ask, but it seems kind of a pain to have to support 2 different man page trees, have things occasionally break when porting etc.. I use NFS *alot*. It's become almost mandatory at this point because of limited disk resources on each machine, so that's got to be supported.. Natually, uVaxen and 3/50's are not blindingly fast and I don't have much memory (3MB on the II, 6MB on the 2000 and 4MB on the Sun), so I need something that's as efficient and compact as possible. With all these considerations in mind, would Mach be a good idea? How about this "wisconsin" 4.3 I've seen mentioned? Would they support the graphics displays and NFS? Would X (version 10) compile with the existing qvss and Sun ddx libraries? I probably want far too much.. I guess I'll be stuck with Ultrix and Sun 3.x.. Jordan Hubbard U.C. Berkeley jkh@violet.berkeley.edu
david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) (08/11/87)
>[Wanted one OS for all his systems]
I know for a fact that Sun builds and runs SunOS on Vaxen internally for
a number of reasons, mostly to remove machine dependencies. I would
love to know if Sun ever has plans to release SunOS with all of
it's nice features such as NFS, SYSV support, New VM system, for
a Vax to the public. I would guess that if one had SUNSRC or maybe
SUNINT source you could do the port yourself with little difficulty.
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