From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!langloui Newsgroups: net.cms Title: CP PER, Student CMS, Batch, Etc. Article-I.D.: pur-ee.317 Posted: Thu May 13 21:21:53 1982 Received: Fri May 14 05:25:48 1982 Re: CP PER, Student CMS, Batch, and Unix in general... CP PER -- Available from University of Maine. I don't have their address, since our copy of PER came from SAS Institute. They are probably in VMSHARE, if you have access to it. Student CMS -- This past semester (Jan-May), we had several classes from campus (Purdue Univ.) use the 4341 processor at LARS. The response from students was favorable using CMS. They prefer!! CMS over PROCSY (home-grown, poor excuse for a interactive system), and yes, Unix fans, even Unix!! (In my opinion, they have excellent taste.) They were using regular CMS, with no special modifications to the system. Batch -- You mean there are still people out there using OS for a batch system under VM??? We folks here at LARS (Laboratory for the Applications of Remote Sensing)/Purdue have written a CMS BATCH facility. It is a rewrite based (very loosely) on CMSBATCH that IBM distributes with CMS. Ours (I work at LARS...) uses VMCF for communications between a central monitor and the slave machines. This way, the monitor schedules jobs for execution based on system utilization and rate scheduling criteria. For further information and/or documentation on it, contact: Louis Lang LARS/Purdue University 1220 Potter Dr. W. Lafayette IN 47906-1391 Phone: (317) 494-6305 Ext 256 net addr: decvax!pur-ee:langloui >From the above comments, it's pretty obvious that I'm a CMS bigot. Unix is nice (if nothing else is available), especially for mini's. I would rather use Unix than RSX, but give me CMS any time!!!