jko@ecsvax.UUCP (10/20/84)
Has anybody out there worked with the Ridge-32 32bit supermini? If you have, could you provide me with some info on why you can't go in and out with the same serial port? If you haven't I'd appreciate a short C program that shows how to do communications off of a big Unix system with all the attendant gimmicks. I would write the darn thing myself but I don't have access to any manuals on a regular basis and the operating system is a Western Electric System V/Berkley hybrid. I would really welcome any help because although I know C, I'm pretty unfamiliar with UNIX, having programmed largely on micros and mainframes. Thanks. jko Dept. History NCSU Raleigh, NC 27695-8018 decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!jko
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) (10/23/84)
* Has anybody out there worked with the Ridge-32 32bit supermini?
... the operating system is a Western Electric System V/Berkeley
hybrid.
Not true; the operating system is something called ROS, and is a true
abomination. They emulate System III with library routines (very slowly).
But don't expect ``ps'' to show you anything reasonable, for example.
(Now if they had some real software, it might not be a bad machine.)
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