Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!anton From: anton@ucbvax.ARPA (Jeff Anton) Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: Re: conversion of u. c. berkeley vaxen to ultrix Message-ID: <10112@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 17:23:15 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10112 Posted: Thu Aug 22 17:23:15 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 04:21:34 EDT References: <1094@ames.UUCP> Reply-To: anton@ucbvax.UUCP (Jeff Anton) Distribution: net Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 29 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