Douglas@sri-unix (07/28/82)
Date: 25 Jun 1982 at 0340-CDT The System III terminal driver is significantly better than the one on 7th Edition. This is not hearsay but word from a user. I have found precisely five things "wrong" with System III so far: 1) One cannot really run 8 users on a PDP-11/34 as advertised, at least not as I received the system. 2) The 11/34 tape (only) was obviously made on a small system, and the games and graphics were not present; also the cpio tape files were not in the order stated in the documentation. This tape may not have been the "official" distribution, however, for reasons that I won't go into. 3) The PDP-11 Ritchie C compiler has an address wrap-around bug on an 11/34; I reported this and its fix to Unix-Wizards previously. 4) One has to edit the VAX-11/780 code (change one line) to work around one of DEC's ECOs to the operation of the VAX (apparently the system/user space bit is no longer stripped from an address that is the source of an MTPR instruction). 5) The VAX initial magtape boot procedure has one typo (S 2 should be S 0) as reported at the last USENIX conference. I have found MANY things "right" with System III as compared to 7th Edition (32V). I wonder if all the gripes are because AT&T quit giving away "free" software to universities? -------