mark.umcp-cs%udel-relay@sri-unix.UUCP (06/16/83)
From: Mark Weiser <mark.umcp-cs@udel-relay> I just heard a rumor that Sun wouldn't be delivering 4.2bsd until the fall... and yet they announced it a couple of months ago (which is not really inconsistent: to announce all one needs is a price). It seems logical to me that if the Vax 4.2bsd isn't done then how can Sun's (since presumably they will be very much alike)? Are there any user sites running 4.2 on their Sun's? What is the real deliver schedule? (Sun itself says they are delivering now, and of course they are demoing 4.2, but who actually has it?)
mike.rice%rand-relay@sri-unix.UUCP (06/17/83)
From: Mike.Caplinger <mike.rice@rand-relay> We were a beta test site for Sun's "4.2", which is really an evolved 4.1c for the Sun. The first non-test release arrived yesterday. I can't say anything about our beta-site experiences, and I haven't yet brought the standard release up, but in general we are happy so far. The system is not 4.2, but then it doesn't look as though 4.2 from Berkeley is going to be as ambitious as the proposal indicated. We will shortly be running 3 Suns (two servers, one diskless) on the same Ethernet as 2 VAXen, 1 running the BBN networking kernel, and the other beta-test VAX 4.1c. So far, a look at the documentation indicates that there may be a problem with Ethernet address resolution on a net with diskless nodes; we have already experienced similar problems with our 4.1c VAX, which does no address resolution at all. In the next few months we will be getting several more Suns, and may or may not convert all our VAXen to 4.1c, so we'll be getting more and more experience with this configuration. Our experiences will probably appear only in WorkS, unless there's a demand for them elsewhere. - Mike