sonya@usenix.ORG (Sonya Neufer) (06/05/90)
This is an update on the Terminal room for those of you that are wondering what will be present next week in Anaheim. There will be a T-1 link, NCD terminals, other terminals, a Xylogics terminal server and Telebit modems. The terminal server will have a line for anybody with a female RS232 port (and the other supporting hardware/software) that wants to connect to a modem or across the Internet. WRITE DOWN YOUR SYSTEM's INTERNET NUMBER and carry it with you, if you plan to log in over the Internet. Phone calls outside of the 714 area code will require a phone card, AT&T, MCI, Sprint, etc.. The terminal room will have a Sun 3/80 with QIC 11, QIC 24 and a 9-track tape drive. Facilities will be available to make QIC 11, QIC 24 and Exabyte tapes from AnDATAco's booth on the show floor as well. It is possible the Terminal Room will have Exabyte and TK50 facilities as well. Email to people at the conference will be printed on the Terminal room laser printer starting Monday at noon. The address to send to will be first_lastname@conference.usenix.org Mail will be posted on the Usenix message board by lastname. Any questions about the terminal room should be sent to sonya@usenix.org Sonya D. Neufer Newsgroups: comp.usenix.org Subject: Terminal Room Update Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: sonya@usenix.UUCP (Sonya Neufer) Followup-To: Distribution: world Organization: USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA Keywords: This is an update on the Terminal room for those of you that are wondering what will be present next week in Anaheim. There will be a T-1 link, NCD terminals, other terminals, a Xylogics terminal server and Telebit modems. The terminal server will have a line for anybody with a female RS232 port (and the other supporting hardware/software) that wants to connect to a modem or across the Internet. WRITE DOWN YOUR SYSTEM's INTERNET NUMBER and carry it with you, if you plan to log in over the Internet. Phone calls outside of the 714 area code will require a phone card, AT&T, MCI, Sprint, etc.. The terminal room will have a Sun 3/80 with QIC 11, QIC 24 and a 9-track tape drive. Facilities will be available to make QIC 11, QIC 24 and Exabyte tapes from AnDATAco's booth on the show floor as well. It is possible the Terminal Room will have Exabyte and TK50 facilities as well. Email to people at the conference will be printed on the Terminal room laser printer starting Monday at noon. The address to send to will be first_lastname@conference.usenix.org Mail will be posted on the Usenix message board by lastname. Any questions about the terminal room should be sent to sonya@usenix.org Sonya D. Neufer
tower@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (06/07/90)
In article <371@usenix.ORG> sonya@usenix.UUCP (Sonya Neufer) writes: | |The terminal room will have a Sun 3/80 with QIC 11, QIC 24 and a |9-track tape drive. Facilities will be available to make QIC 11, |QIC 24 and Exabyte tapes from AnDATAco's booth on the show floor |as well. | |It is possible the Terminal Room will have Exabyte and TK50 facilities |as well. I will be bringing the four tapes that the GNU Project is currently distributing. A description of them is appended. It will probably also be possible to ftp software from any of the numerous ftp archive sites around the Internet. Maybe have a glance over comp.archives before you come? See you in Anaheim. enjoy -len ---------------------------------------------------------------------- All software and publications are distributed with permission to copy and redistribute. TeX source for each manual is on the appropriate tape; the prices for tapes do not include printed manuals. All software from the Free Software Foundation is provided on an "as is" basis, with no warranty of any kind. 1) GNU Emacs source code and other software. The tape includes: * GNU Emacs (the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor) * MIT Scheme (a dialect of Lisp) * T, Yale's implementation of Scheme * Bison (a free, compatible replacement for yacc) * Nethack (a rogue-like game) * GNU Chess (a chess playing program with an interface to X). * GDB (release version of the GNU source-level C debugger) * The X window system (a window system for bitmap displays written at MIT) (version 10r4) 2) GNU Beta Test software, for Unix systems. The tape includes: * GCC (the GNU C Compiler, including COFF support) * G++ (the C++ front end to GCC) * lib-g++ (the G++ class library) * NIH Class Library (formerly known as OOPS) * Interviews (C++ library to support X11 window systems) * Bash (GNUs' Bourne Again SHell) * Bison (a free, compatible replacement for yacc) * Flex (Vern Paxson fast rewrite of lex) * Ghostscript (a Postscript interpreter) * Gawk (the GNU implementation of the AWK programming language) * Gas (the GNU Assembler) * GDB (beta version of the GNU source-level C debugger) * Gnuplot (an interactive mathematical plotting program) * Compress (a file compression program) * RCS (Revision Control System) * CVS (Concurrent Control System) * GNU object file utilities (ar, ld, make, gprof, size, nm, strip, ranlib, et al.) * other GNU utilities (make, diff, grep, tar, et al.) * Gnu GO (the GNU implementation of the game of GO) * the freed files from the 4.3BSD-Tahoe distribution 3) Required MIT X Window System X11R4 tape, core software and documentation, and contributed client software. 4) Optional MIT X Window System X11R4 tape, contributed software including libraries, games, Andrew and toolkits. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- enjoy -len -- Len Tower, Project GNU of the Free Software Foundation 1000 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA +1 (617) 876-3296 HOME: 36 Porter Street, Somerville, MA 02143, USA +1 (617) 623-7739 UUCP: {}!mit-eddie!mit-prep!tower INTERNET: tower@prep.ai.mit.edu
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (06/08/90)
In article <371@usenix.ORG> sonya@usenix.ORG (Sonya Neufer) writes:
... NCD terminals ... a Xylogics terminal server ...
WRITE DOWN YOUR SYSTEM's INTERNET NUMBER and carry it with you, if
you plan to log in over the Internet.
Those boxes don't resolve domain names? How quaint!tower@buita.bu.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (06/08/90)
In article <BOB.90Jun7143832@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: |In article <371@usenix.ORG> sonya@usenix.ORG (Sonya Neufer) writes: | ... NCD terminals ... a Xylogics terminal server ... | WRITE DOWN YOUR SYSTEM's INTERNET NUMBER and carry it with you, if | you plan to log in over the Internet. | |Those boxes don't resolve domain names? How quaint! The Terminal Room has had working DNS resolvers in the past. I expect it will this time. But bringing your SYSTEM's INTERNET NUMBER is still wise advice. Practically, terminal room users have been able to telnet to their home hosts with it's Internet number, at times when its Internet DNS name has not been resolvable. To understand why, I suggest you study the relevant specs, figure out likely failure modes, and try to run an operation like the Terminal Room, or a Conference Show net to really gain an understanding of likely failure modes. thanx -len (a very happy Terminal Room user)
mtr@geech.ai.mit.edu (Michael Rowan) (06/08/90)
In article <8886@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> tower@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes:
I will be bringing the four tapes that the GNU Project is currently
distributing. A description of them is appended.
I am bringing an Exabyte tape with our stuff on it as well, in case
there really is an exabyte there...scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) (06/09/90)
sonya@usenix.ORG (Sonya Neufer) writes: >The terminal room will have a Sun 3/80 with QIC 11, QIC 24 and a >9-track tape drive. Facilities will be available to make QIC 11, >QIC 24 and Exabyte tapes from AnDATAco's booth . . . I predict a popular sale item would be blank tapes. Hint, hint, you vendors.