[comp.sys.apollo] Comments on taking care of Apollo workstations?

roode@hydra.cf.uci.edu (Dana Roode) (05/10/89)

Greetings - Im the manager of a group of (currently Sun/DEC) programmers
looking into support of Apollo DN3000/DN3500s for a group on campus that
owns a handful.  Would anyone like to share their opinions of what
it takes to care and feed 10-12 Apollo nodes?  Contrasts to taking
care of Sun equipment would be most useful, as that is what we do most
of at present.

The nodes run (or will run) SR10.1, but I have quickly realized that
"UNIX" is in the eye of the beholder.  Things like shell-variable
determined file links, cataloging nodes, lots of extra startup files,
edrgy and the like are new to me.

Please reply to me directly,

   Dana Roode
   UCI Distributed Computing Services
   roode@orion.cf.uci.edu