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From: anton@ucbvax.ARPA (Jeff Anton)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: conversion of u. c. berkeley vaxen to ultrix
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 17:23:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 22 17:23:15 1985
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In article <1094@ames.UUCP> jaw@ames.UUCP (James A. Woods) writes:
>#  "there was a rumor, about a tumor, nestled at the base of his brain."
>	-- the ballad of charles whitman, k. friedman
>
>to save on systems administration costs, all u. c. berkeley departmental,
>student (evans hall), and comp center vaxen are slated for conversion
>from bsd 4.2 to dec ultrix.  research (csrg) machines choosing to run 4.3
>are exempt from this directive.
>
>   ames!jaw

That's a good one, I suppose you have a bridge to sell also!

It might be true for the computer center here, but the CS, EECS, and
some other misc. departments are smarter than that.  Costs of running
machines here is high only because of the number of them.  The comp.
center loves IBM so they can do what they please.  A neat utility
called rdist allows many machines to be automagically updated with
bug fixes and extentions.  Better to fix a bug yourself then wait
for DEC which I've heard puts something like "This system call not
supported by DEC" on all the system call man pages.  Can you
imagine not supporting fork?
				Of course, this is all rumors.
-- 
C knows no bounds.
					Jeff Anton
					U.C.Berkeley
					ucbvax!anton
					anton@berkeley.ARPA