jay@hqda-ai.ARPA (Jay Hiser) (06/14/88)
In answer to the recent concerns about the lack of readership here and also my recent query on the emacs board -- OK, I'm here now & I'm reading this board from now on. I've just taken over a sys admin job on an OFFICE POWER site (fortunately, none of the GS types are using unix!) that includes 3 Power 6/32s, approx 29 mighty Power 5/20s, and innumerable power terms. Having grown up on a VAX, BSD, vt100 environment, it is going to take a while to adjust. I'm told that none of the 6s has broken for 6 months, so I can't ask for more reliability than that (the VAXes broke weekly). No, I don't think the site ever had uucp configured. That doesn't stop it from running uucico 4 before every hour -- its ready to be opened up to the world (no this isn't being posted from my system). Once I've got uucp working, I'm going to be looking for a news feed(s) in the DC area. To answer the emacs question, some of the CCI guys have got GNU emacs 18.50 on their P6 & also have a pt.el file for the powerterm. I'm not sure if my staff will be able to handle emacs without losing gray matter, so I still might be looking for jove. Oh yes, someone else at CCI is using micro-emacs. I'll be posting again as soon as I start to get ambitious (elm, news, rn, less, etc.). Jay Heiser
magill@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Operations Manager) (06/16/88)
The Harris HCX-9 supports GNU 18.47 quite nicely.
This is Harris' version of the Tahoe running HUX - Harris' version
of Unix(tm).
William H. Magill
Operations Manager
Computing and Educational Technology Services (CETS)
(formerly Moore School Computing Facility - MSCF)
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)
University of Pennsylvania
Office Mailing Address:
William H. Magill 215/898-4707
CETS
200 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6314
Network addresses:
SEASnet: Magill@eniac
PENNnet: Magill@eniac.seas
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Magill@upenn.edu
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William H. Magill
Operations Manager
Computing and Educational Technology Services (CETS)
(formerly Moore School Computing Facility - MSCF)
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)
University of Pennsylvania
Office Mailing Address:
William H. Magill 215/898-4707
CETS
200 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6314
Network addresses:
SEASnet: Magill@eniac
PENNnet: Magill@eniac.seas
Internet: Magill@eniac.seas.upenn.edu -or-
Magill@upenn.edu
BITnet: Magill@pennlrsmdao@cs.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) (06/16/88)
In article <5147@hqda-ai.ARPA> jay@hqda-ai.ARPA (Jay Hiser) writes: >I've just taken over a sys admin job on an OFFICE POWER site >(fortunately, none of the GS types are using unix!) that includes 3 >Power 6/32s, approx 29 mighty Power 5/20s, and innumerable power >terms. Having grown up on a VAX, BSD, vt100 environment, it is going >to take a while to adjust. I'm told that none of the 6s has broken >for 6 months, so I can't ask for more reliability than that (the VAXes >broke weekly). yes, hardware reliability is the impression I get from our Power 6/32, although we had the Instruction Processor board replaced two weeks ago because of parity errors in the instruction cache. some email responses I had to my earlier "tahoe sites, where are you?" posting criticised the xfd drives for failing regularly, but we haven't had our system long enough to find out about that ;-) of course, we all take regular backups, don't we, so disk failures aren't a problem, are they? >To answer the emacs question, some of the CCI guys have got GNU emacs >18.50 on their P6 & also have a pt.el file for the powerterm. I'm not >sure if my staff will be able to handle emacs without losing gray >matter, so I still might be looking for jove. Oh yes, someone else at >CCI is using micro-emacs. I use microEmacs 3.8b ok under SysV.2 (release 2.11.02, which is old now) and have the latest jove to work on, but haven't unpacked it yet. a colleague has the latest GNU Emacs to implement, likewise, but I know that an identical machine to ours, at the University of Bath, is running GNU Emacs (I forget which version). >I'll be posting again as soon as I start to get ambitious (elm, news, >rn, less, etc.). I've only got 'less', out of those. which flavour and release of OS are you running, SysV or BSD? dave -- David Osborne +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK | | JANET: dao@uk.ac.nott.cs || cczdao@uk.ac.nott.vaxa | | UUCP: {...!mcvax}!ukc!nott-cs!dao | | ARPA: dao%cs.nott.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa || @ucl-cs.arpa:dao@cs.nott.cs.uk | | Phone: +44 602 506101 x2064 Voice: "Dave!" | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+