tahsin@rd-atlas.UUCP (Tahsin Choudhuri) (03/28/89)
I am looking for some information on Apollo's UNIX. I am not much familiar
with Apollos, so I thought net would be a good place to get some feedback.
Primarily, I would like to know your comments on the following to understand
what are some important issues one should be aware of in managing Apollos.
(i.e. From system administration and network services point of view is an
Apollo with UNIX is identical to any other UNIX boxes (e.g. Sun, SGI, Sequent,
Encore, Masscomp) on a distributed network environment ?)
1) Is the UNIX on Apollo available as fully 4.2 BSD or fully SYS5
or combination of UNIX and Apollo's own AEGIS . Which OS version
provides the choice of Apollo with *only* UNIX or does AEGIS need
to be present underneath regardless of choice of either UNIX.
2) Given somebody is *only* familiar with routine system administration
on 4.2 BSD/Sys5 based UNIX boxes (e.g. Sun, SGI, Sequent, Encore)
how much new stuff he/she will have to learn to manage
a "UNIX based Apollo". (i.e. ?X months training )
3) How well does NFS work on Apollo. Lately I saw some posting on the
net about having problems of storing object files from C compiler.
Also, how well does remote dumping, remote printer access, TCP/IP
(ftp, telnet rXX services), SMTP mail, Yellow Pages, work with other
non-Apollos (e.g. Suns) on the network. Is the NCS only available
under AEGIS only or it functions OK under UNIX too.
4) Does all (or most) of the software run OK under UNIX on Apollo,
which normally runs OK under AEGIS only. Any comments on,Pro-Engineer
CAD package, public domain UNIX software (net-news, gnu-emacs, etc.)
Thanks in advance for sharing your experience, please email directly if
possible I will post a summary along with responses from others.
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