Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site noao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hudson!ihnp1!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!noao!grandi From: grandi@noao.UUCP (Steve Grandi) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: raw rumour: VAX 8600 & Ultrix Message-ID: <440@aquila.noao.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 17:49:28 EST Article-I.D.: aquila.440 Posted: Sun Dec 2 17:49:28 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 19:44:06 EST References: <6230@brl-tgr.ARPA> <371@grendel.UUCP> Organization: Natl. Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ USA Lines: 21 > > Rumour of unknown quality: DEC won't have Ultrix running on the VAX > > 8600 for at least 1 year. Can anyone comment on this? What about the > > supposedly standard VAX architechture? > > My understanding -- not speaking officially, you understand -- is 6 months > to availability. (The architecture is standard and Ultrix-32 will run on > it.) > -- > Fred Avolio, DEC -- U{LTR,N}IX Support Since the 8600 is being sold initially ONLY as a package with VAXcluster hardware (a HSC50 that talks to RA disks and TA78 tapes), DEC will have to write drivers and such for this hardware before Ultrix will be usable. You could run an 8600 with traditional massbuss and unibus disks and tapes, but DEC isn't selling them that way for a while. Forced to learn VMS for our 8600---- -- Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ UUCP: {allegra,arizona,astrovax,decvax,hao,ihnp4,seismo,lbl-csam} !noao!grandi Arpa: noao!grandi@lbl-csam