bobl@tekgds.UUCP (Bob Lewis) (11/02/83)
I though the net might be interested in the following quote without comment from the September issue of the UC Berkeley Computing Services Newsletter: ...Computer Facilities and Operations has recently ordered two new VAX 11/750s. ... These VAXes will be installed some time during the Fall Semester and will bring the number of production UNIX machines up to 14. Currently, we are running version 4.1a BSD of the UNIX operating system on all our VAXes. Since the new VAXes will be equipped with the newer RA81 disk drives, it is likely that we will run Version 4.2 BSD on them because of driver problems with 4.1a. While 4.2 BSD is the system we intend to run on all our VAXes in the future, the lengthy upgrade process does not allow us to switch over all our systems at once. It is, therefore, likely that we will be running two different versions of UNIX on our VAXes during the fall. This is more of a systems programming problem than a user problem since the user interface is quite similar between the two systems (although some of the system calls have changed). Bob Lewis tektronix!tekgds!bobl
notes@ucbcad.UUCP (11/02/83)
#R:tekgds:-153000:ucbcad:21300002:000:250 ucbcad!kalash Nov 2 09:20:00 1983 For what it is worth, the computer center here (they are NOT connected with CSRG) has made some extensive modifications to their 4.1 systems (mainly having to do with accounting and related stuff), which slows down their conversions. Joe Kalash