lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) (07/30/88)
[ Followups in comp.mail.misc ] In article <1756@mrmarx.UUCP> jaa@mrmarx.UUCP (Jerry Abramson) writes: >Part of the confusion here regarding the MTS system at RPI (Rensselaer >Polytechnic Institute) is that the correct name of the operating system is >MTS/XA (Extended Architecture) Which contains a number of significant >modifications to the original MTS system developed at Michigan. Wasn't MTS/XA the version for the IBM 370/XA (and the high end Amdahl machines MTS sites like to run)? My understanding was these changes were mainly modifications to UMMPS to enable it to deal with 32 (31?) bit real memory addresses, etc. As I recall, UQV installed XA on the 470 in 1980 or '81, with $MESS (and all the other fancy CLS upgrades) coming a year or two later with the second wave of MTS 5.x. On a related note, does anyone know if Confer or *FORUM have been taught about networks and remote sites yet? (I'm trying not to smile here :-) DISCLAIM EQU * SVC 6 END -- VE6BBM {alberta,pyramid,uunet}!ncc!lyndon lyndon@Nexus.CA
emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (07/31/88)
In article <10359@ncc.Nexus.CA> lyndon@ncc.nexus.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: >[ Followups in comp.mail.misc ] > >On a related note, does anyone know if Confer or *FORUM have been >taught about networks and remote sites yet? (I'm trying not to >smile here :-) > Jon Zeeff (umix!b-tech!zeeff) wrote ConferLink, a program that lets two Confer conferences or a Confer and a Picospan conference (or multiples of either) be connected. It ran on his unix system for a while, but UM Computing Center management never picked up on the usefulness of such a product so they never purchased a license for it. It worked surprisingly well, considering how many hoops it had to jump through to deal with what was then the difficulties of getting network access to MTS. It might be better now, at least at Michigan, since MTS here does have $ftp and inbound telnet service. Still, not a trivial task. As much as I like the usenet, there's something to be said for Confer and *FORUM (and by extension Picospan and similarly organized communications media) - there's a very strong illusion of community that is built up. A bunch of picospan conferences connected over the internet with Picolink/Conferlink would be better for some types of discussions that the usenet. Any picospan sites on the internet right now ? --Ed Edward Vielmetti, usenet/uucp admin, U of Michigan mail group $ENDFILE --