gdueck@watmsg.waterloo.edu (Gery Dueck) (06/28/88)
I am thinking of purchasing a number of Apollo Dn4000 workstations and need answers to some questions that the salesmen cannot or will not answer 1) We are a VAX/VMS shop. I want to run 4.3BSD on the Apollo's. Is it possible to run NFS on both systems? Does NFS software come with the Apollo system? Where can I get NFS for VMS? The VAX already has ethernet (DECNET) ...will I also need TCP/IP for VMS? 2) Will I be able to use Xwindows on VMS terminal sessions? 3) Does the Apollo come with ditroff, pic, eqn, tbl, and MS macro package? Is there a previewer available for troff? Can I get software to produce troff output for an LN03? 4) Same as 2) except for TEX/LATEX. 5) Has anyone ported gcc and g++ onto the Apollo? (I can get the distribution tapes and do it myself, but it would be so much more convenient to get binaries.) I suspect the answer to all of the above is yes. What I need to know is which of the above are definitly not possible and the dollar costs of those that are possible.
rees@A.CC.UMICH.EDU (Jim Rees) (06/28/88)
5) Has anyone ported gcc and g++ onto the Apollo? (I can get
the distribution tapes and do it myself, but it would be
so much more convenient to get binaries.)
I have gcc running here, but it produces a.out, which aegis doesn't
understand. I think I can safely say that no one has gcc running
on an Apollo and generating code that is executable on an Apollo.
If you can wait, sr10 runs coff, and it may be possible to either
fix gas to produce coff (someone claims to have done this but he
doesn't answer his email) or write an a.out to coff converter.
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