campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (10/22/87)
I thought some of the Rainbow diehards out there might be amused by
a description of what my Rainbow is up to these days, so here it is.
[Those of you who don't know me may have seen a program I wrote called
LC-Term.]
My home Rainbow runs UNIX. It's a node on the Usenet (maynard@bsw.com),
with 22 UUCP neighbors, and I'm composing and sending this mail from it.
I have (nearly) the latest news software running on it -- B news 2.11,
patch level 4, and rn patch level 39.
My hardware: 896K model B motherboard; graphics; Y-cable permitting
me to run four virtual UNIX consoles on the mono tube and simultaneously
draw color graphics on the color tube; 67MB Micropolis disk; NEC V20
CPU chip; 8087 floating point.
My software: VENIX/86 by VenturCom, a true V7 UNIX port. It's now
configured for 30 processes and sometimes I run out -- next time I link
a kernel, it'll have 35 process slots. I have 22 UUCP neighbors that
I regularly call, and get a large partial news feed from two of them --
everything except the soc and talk groups. The system moves, on the average,
85 megabytes of news and mail a month, using one 1200 baud phone line.
As far as spiffy extra software goes: a really nice version of Jove;
smail, which gives me true Internet-style domain addressed mail (oh,
I forgot to mention that my Rainbow is the gateway machine for my
company's registered Internet mail domain); the `sc' spreadsheet;
some Mandelbrot set software I wrote that provides truly stunning
demos on the color tube; and a commercial product called Tplus, which
is a port of the AT&T Documenter's Work Bench, including pic, eqn, tbl,
and ditroff, with a driver for my HP LaserJet.
As you might have discerned, I am a VENIX and Rainbow enthusiast, and
would be delighted to tell anyone who's interested more about my system,
or about VENIX. And I do have a complete set of Rainbow technical docs
here and would be willing to look up the occasional obscure hardware
pinout or other tidbit.
--
Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc.
Internet: campbell@maynard.bsw.com 120 Fulton Street, Boston MA 02109
uucp: {husc6,mirror,think}!maynard!campbell +1 617 367 6846