Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ittvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!ittvax!long From: long@ittvax.UUCP (H. Morrow Long) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Re: ULTRIX Message-ID: <1506@ittvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 09:38:51 EDT Article-I.D.: ittvax.1506 Posted: Fri Sep 21 09:38:51 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 02:23:13 EDT References: <4303@fortune.UUCP> Organization: ITT-ATC, Stratford Ct. Lines: 23 > MY QUESTION: > > ULTRIX was developed for VAXen by the VMS wizards at DEC. > So how does the efficiency of VAX/ULTRIX compare to > VAX/VMS? > > Anyone care to conjecture? > > > > Charlie Tierney From what I've heard Ultrix is Berkeley Unix 4.2bsd Vax 11/780 version that has been all DEC'ed out. We haven't received a copy yet so I can't report what (if any) performance enhancements, system tuning utilities or assorted kludges they may have made. Reportedly they have fixed many of the bugs in the Mt. Xinu buglist. H. Morrow Long decvax!ittvax!long W.I.T. Wizard-in-Training