Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!wivax!cadmus!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!Goeke@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA From: Goeke@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Venix86 Users Group News Message-ID: <6117@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 23:24:11 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6117 Posted: Tue Nov 27 23:24:11 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 08:43:28 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 25 Do add me to the list of those interested in a VENIX users group. I've been running it on an 11/23 with a 20MB DSD drive for a year and a half now, and have been very happy with it. Interestingly, Venturcom seems to have forgotten that I exist, since absolutely ZERO mail has arrived on new products, etc. since the day I got my floppies. They share this distinction with DEC who also doesn't realize that past customers with licenses are possible future customers. BTW, I communicate to the rest of the world through this Honeywell machine called MIT-Multics for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I've never gotten 'uucp' to work, though I only spent a couple of hours trying. Secondly, a true net link would mean I'd have to connect my machine to a telephone. Now in real life, you should understand, my machine works without passwords. . .if you can get to one of it's two terminals, you get on -- the same with my desk and file cabinet. I'm less happy with having to institute some security scheme just because I want a net connection occasionaly. Anyway, I use Kermit to talk to MIT-Multics and drop files; works like a champ, and it compiled with no difficulties; I may have had to set 1ifdef, but that was it. -- Bob Goeke MIT Center for Space Research Room 37-567 Cambridge, MA 02139 617-253-1910