davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham) (07/22/89)
O.K, this is probably old hat to most of you but I've just in- stalled (or had installed -:) SR10.1 and X(apollo)11 on an unused DN3000 with 4meg and 140meg disk (we are a mentor site and have not got the SR10.1 mentor stuff yet, so the nodes used for CAD work can not be SR10'ed). SR10.1 is *so* much better than 9.7/domain/IX, I can't believe it. I don't care what people say about the memory and disk usage -- My old 3000 goes much faster than it did before and runs all the daemons you ever need in 4 meg! Also, after spending months hacking real UNIX code so'ws it'd compile on the Apollo, I have just finished porting the NNTP re- mote news system in three hours. It only needed one hack and that was to remove an error in the code ! I've got the DNS resolver system so I don't have to keep copying /etc/hosts from a SUN. I've got an (apparently) very good X11 port, with "mwm", the motif window manager, which is really pretty. All this and machines which can be administered by one person, while he does a real job as well ! David Boreham, INMOS Limited | mail(uk): davidb@inmos.co.uk or ukc!inmos!davidb Bristol, England | (us): uunet!inmos-c!davidb +44 454 616616 ex 543 | Internet : @col.hp.com:davidb@inmos-c