Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wlcrjs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!wlcrjs!randy From: randy@wlcrjs.UUCP (Randy Suess) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: My interesting Experiences with the 3B2 (to say the best!) Message-ID: <126@wlcrjs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 08:59:49 EDT Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.126 Posted: Sun Aug 11 08:59:49 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 20:07:23 EDT References: <453@brl-tgr.ARPA> <271@kitty.UUCP> Reply-To: randy@wlcrjs.UUCP (Randy Suess) Organization: chinet, Public Access UN*X, Chicago Lines: 39 In article <271@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: >This article is long, but I hope informative to anyone interested in the 3B2: > >> I work in a Microcomputer Lab at Rutgers University and we have been >> working with the AT&T 3B2 for roughly 2 months. At this point I wish >> mention my experiences and I am curious if anyone has had the same of >> troubles. I have had a Public Access UN*X system running now for about 2 years on a Altos 986 with from 2 40 meg up to to 80 meg drives. The most users it could support was 4 and when news unpacked it died. I have just obtained a 3b2/300 with a 32 meg disk, which I promptly replaced with a pair of 80's and with 6 users doing compiles of rn, news unpacking is hardly noticed. This is a fairly new 3b2 with Sys V Rel 2.2 and the compiler is the latest release with flexnames. We have had no downtime for a month other than my screwing things up. I don't have a XM yet, (impossible to find in the midwest) so I added the second drive in my own cabinet and connected directly to the 3b. This accounted for some of the downtime untill I figured the 3b2 wanted to shut off the second drive before it itself powered down. I guess this is taken care of automaticaly with the XM unit. Honey-danber uucp is supplied, and it beats the pants off of any other uucp I have ever seen. My news feed and I have been at odds for years because of the un-reliability of Altos's(XENIX) uucp, but so far we have not had one dropped transmission that could not be accounted for by EXTREMELY noisy fone lines. I ma extremely pleased with the 3b2 but not with AT&T. Their attitude is that since I am an individual, I know nothing about computers and will have to pay for all info/help. It was a real joy to try to obtain the DEVTOOLS disk to initilize the hard disks. They kept insisting that it was a tech only diagnostic and that I wouldn't know how to use it. That is a whole different story, however. At least now I can say 'Public Access UNIX' -- .. that's the biz, sweetheart... Randy Suess chi-net - Public Access UN*X (312) 545 7535 (h) (312) 283 0559 (system) ..!ihnp4!{wlcrjs|chinet}!randy