demillo@europa.UUCP (robert demillo) (07/17/87)
The Brown University Planetary Science group is a Beta test site
for EUNICE BSD4.3. We have had a EUNICE contract with Wollongong
for years...
When this release was "in the works" we kept hearing rumours that it
was a near 100% BSD4.3 clone. We had, of course, severe doubts of this
claim - especially considering Wollongong's past EUNICE systems.
When we received the Beta release, we were amused: the company was so
cocky that it had a BSD 4.3 clone that, instead of EUNICE manuals,
it included a complete set of UNIX(c) BSD4.3 manuals.
However, as the system was installed and began to run, we stopped laughing.
This release of EUNICE is so close to being UNIX BSD 4.3 that the
differences aren't even worth mentioning. UNIX binaries could be transported
and ran without recompiling, complex shells that used to blow EUNICE 4.2
out of the water started working flawlessly, UUCP *ran* immediately(!!!),
news and rn were brought to our system, compiled as a UNIX 4.3 system and
ran, etc etc etc....
No one was more amazed by all of this than me - being a dyed-in-the-wool
EUNICE hater, I have totally changed my tune. Wollongong has done an
amazing thing with this release: they made a useable, flexible UNIX(c)
clone that sits on top of VMS. No longer does:
EUNICE + VMS = the worst of both worlds.
Congradulations to Wollongong! Your only problem now is going to be
fighting a bad rap from your previous EUNICE releases!!
I have no connection with Wollongong other than as an *amazed* and
satisfied customer...
- Rob DeMillo
Brown University - Planetary Science Group
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