eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) (06/23/88)
Gene Spafford recently posted an article urging me to coordinate an open
beta test of News 3.0 before release. I am quite willing to do this; the
software has already run successfully on enough different systems (including
680x0, Pyramid, and VAX processors under System V and 4.[23]BSD and under
XENIX and Microport UNIX on [23]86 boxes) that I feel very confident of its
stability and portability (it doesn't hurt that the *entire* suite lints
clean).
Volunteers for this round so far include:
Site Machine UNIX flavor Contact
------- ------- ----------- --------------------------------------------
sco 80386 SCO XENIX V Steph Marr (stephm), Keith Reynolds (keithr)
hoptoad 68020 SunOS 3.2 John Gilmore (gnu)
killer 3B2/500 SVr3.1.1 Bill Wisner (wisner)
u1100a 68010 SVr2 Eric Krohn (krohn)
csccat HP9000 HP-UX 5.22 Jack Hudler (jack)
As you can see, we're short of BSD sites (could it be that *gasp* AT&T really
*is* the standard ;-)?). Somebody with a VAX running good old crufty 4.2 wanna
volunteer? The SCO people are going to test on a 286; I'd also love to recruit
NS32032, SPARC and a couple of RISC sites.
The following is a list of old beta sites that I haven't heard from in a while.
site contact processor UNIX version
------- ----------------------- ----------- ------------------------------
cbmvax grr (George Robbins) VAX 11/750 Ultrix 1.2, essentially 4.2BSD
cbm grr (George Robbins) Zilog S8000 Zeus 5.2, a mildly wonky SVr1
jekkara grr (George Robbins) Zilog S8000 Zeus 3.21, SIII + BSD stuff
tapa larry (L. Pajakowski) 80286 (PC AT) XENIX 3.0
extel larry (L. Pajakowski) PDP11/70 BSD2.9
hutch barber (Steve Barber) VAX, 3B2 SVr2, 4.1BSD
spectrix clewis (Chris Lewis) 68020 XENIX 3.0 (5.0 soon)
mnetor ron (Ron Miller) Pyramid 90x OSx 2.5 (3.0 soon)
amdahl gam (G. A. Moffet) Amdahl 5890 SVr2
riacs mab (Matt Bishop) ? ?
vu-vlsi perry (Rick Perry) Pyramid 90x OSx3.1 (SVr1 + 4.2BSD)
seismo rick (Rick Adams) Celerity 1206D 4.2BSD with NFS
elsie ado (Arthur Olsen) ? ?
devon paul (P. Sutcliffe Jr) 286? XENIX
dragon bobm (Bob McQueer) ? ?
Are you guys still alive? Do you want to get active again?
CAVEAT: I am *still* missing vetted NNTP/NFS support. If your site depends
on this, best sit this round out.
To play, you must establish a login at my machine and be willing to poll me.
I will queue full sources for uucp on request and issue periodic bulletins
and patches to everyone who's formally on the beta list.
I can be reached most of the time at my home phone (given below). Feel free
to e-mail or call me with any questions.
--
Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)
UUCP: {{uunet,rutgers,ihnp4}!cbmvax,rutgers!vu-vlsi,att}!snark!eric
Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) (06/23/88)
Gene Spafford recently posted an article urging me to coordinate an open
beta test of News 3.0 before release. I am quite willing to do this; the
software has already run successfully on enough different systems (including
680x0, Pyramid, and VAX processors under System V and 4.[23]BSD and under
XENIX and Microport UNIX on [23]86 boxes) that I feel quite confident of its
stability and portability (it doesn't hurt that the *entire* suite lints
clean).
Volunteers for this round so far include:
Site Machine UNIX flavor Contact
------- ------- ----------- --------------------------------------------
sco 80386 SCO XENIX V Steph Marr (stephm), Keith Reynolds (keithr)
hoptoad 68020 SunOS 3.2 John Gilmore (gnu)
killer 3B2/500 SVr3.1.1 Bill Wisner (wisner)
u1100a 68010 SVr2 Eric Krohn (krohn)
csccat HP9000 HP-UX 5.22 Jack Hudler (jack)
As you can see, we're short of BSD sites (could it be that *gasp* AT&T really
*is* the standard ;-)?). Somebody with a VAX running good old crufty 4.2 wanna
volunteer? The SCO people are going to test on a 286; I'd also love to recruit
NS32032, SPARC and a couple of RISC sites.
The following is a list of old beta sites that I haven't heard from in a while.
site contact processor UNIX version
------- ----------------------- ----------- ------------------------------
cbmvax grr (George Robbins) VAX 11/750 Ultrix 1.2, essentially 4.2BSD
cbm grr (George Robbins) Zilog S8000 Zeus 5.2, a mildly wonky SVr1
jekkara grr (George Robbins) Zilog S8000 Zeus 3.21, SIII + BSD stuff
tapa larry (L. Pajakowski) 80286 (PC AT) XENIX 3.0
extel larry (L. Pajakowski) PDP11/70 BSD2.9
hutch barber (Steve Barber) VAX, 3B2 SVr2, 4.1BSD
spectrix clewis (Chris Lewis) 68020 XENIX 3.0 (5.0 soon)
mnetor ron (Ron Miller) Pyramid 90x OSx 2.5 (3.0 soon)
amdahl gam (G. A. Moffet) Amdahl 5890 SVr2
riacs mab (Matt Bishop) ? ?
vu-vlsi perry (Rick Perry) Pyramid 90x OSx3.1 (SVr1 + 4.2BSD)
seismo rick (Rick Adams) Celerity 1206D 4.2BSD with NFS
elsie ado (Arthur Olsen) ? ?
devon paul (P. Sutcliffe Jr) 286? XENIX
dragon bobm (Bob McQueer) ? ?
Are you guys still alive? Do you want to get active again?
CAVEAT: I am *still* missing vetted NNTP/NFS support. If your site depends
on this, best sit this round out.
To play, you must establish a login at my machine and be willing to poll me.
I will queue full sources for uucp on request and issue periodic bulletins
and patches to everyone who's formally on the beta list.
I can be reached most of the time at my home phone (given below). Feel free
to e-mail or call me with any questions.
--
Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)
UUCP: {{uunet,rutgers,ihnp4}!cbmvax,rutgers!vu-vlsi,att}!snark!eric
Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) (06/24/88)
More sites have signed up for the open beta:
Site Machine UNIX flavor Contact
------- ------- ----------- --------------------------------------------
crdos 80386 SCO XENIX V Bill Davidsen (davidsen)
bcs212 Apollo Ersatz 4.2BSD Vince Skahan (vader)
jhereg 3B1 AT&T System V Mark H. Colburn (mark)
svedc Sun 2 SunOS 3.5 Dave Heinen (dheinen)
tolerant VAX 4.2BSD Jane Medefesser (jane)
pyrdc Pyr90x OS3.? Mike Whitman (mike)
Watch this space for further developments!
--
Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)
UUCP: {{uunet,rutgers,ihnp4}!cbmvax,rutgers!vu-vlsi,att}!snark!eric
Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) (06/30/88)
In article <dSk4N#3k4nn5=eric@snark.UUCP>, eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes: > More sites have signed up for the open beta: > Site Machine UNIX flavor Contact >------ ------- ----------- -------------------------------------------- > jhereg 3B1 AT&T System V Mark H. Colburn (mark) Hey. Just wondering what release of Unix the 3b1 beta would be testing? 3.0 or 3.5+? 3.0 only supports 8character varible names, and there are a *lot* of us out here that can't afford the $300-$500 to upgrade the os, dev kit, and all our goodies. Core question of all this: Will 3.0 support <8 character filenames? -- Skate UNIX or go home, boogie boy... J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007 ..!bellcore!tness1!/
mark@clout.Jhereg.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) (07/02/88)
In article <995@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend) writes: >In article <dSk4N#3k4nn5=eric@snark.UUCP>, eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >> More sites have signed up for the open beta: >> Site Machine UNIX flavor Contact >>------ ------- ----------- -------------------------------------------- >> jhereg 3B1 AT&T System V Mark H. Colburn (mark) > > >Hey. Just wondering what release of Unix the 3b1 beta would be testing? >3.0 or 3.5+? My machine is running 3.51a of the operationg system with the development set. It would be a simple matter of compiling the software with the -T switch on my machine to test for 8 character variable names, however. This is currently required of some of the software (VDI) libraries which are on the machine now. >Will 3.0 support <8 character filenames? I don't know, but we will check :-) -- Mark H. Colburn mark@jhereg.chi.il.us mark@jhereg.mn.org ..!chinet!jhereg!mark
davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) (07/02/88)
There is a shortnames preprocessor which will solve your problem. I used
to use it when I had a 3B1. I think it came off the unix-pc.sources
group, but I can't remember.
--
bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
{uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me