Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!mark From: mark@gymble.UUCP (Mark Weiser) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: ULTRIX Message-ID: <87@gymble.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 00:23:08 EDT Article-I.D.: gymble.87 Posted: Fri Sep 28 00:23:08 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 06:31:58 EDT References: <665@teklds.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 14 We bought Ultrix on our 2 750's delivered this summer because we had not yet received our 4.2 tapes from Berkeley. Ultrix came up fine, nice documentation. Since then we got the real McCoy and switched for reasons of source availability (we had ordered the source to Ultrix from DEC, but it has yet to come). The switch did not work very well because vanilla 4.2 uda50 disk controllers have bugs. After fixing these up all was ok. (At least DEC knows how to talk to their own devices). Another advantage of Ultrix will presumably be that field service will know how to interpret its error messages, which are a little different from vanilla 4.2. -- Spoken: Mark Weiser ARPA: mark@maryland CSNet: mark@umcp-cs UUCP: {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!mark