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From: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio)
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Subject: DEC maintenance on 86XX requires VMS?
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Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 18:31:45 EDT
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In article <1805@megaron.arizona.edu> whm@arizona.edu (Bill Mitchell) writes:
>We've got an 8600 maintained by DEC that we run 4.3BSD UNIX on.  The system
>has a UDA50+RA60 (removable pack) on it; DEC required that we purchase this
>so that they could boot VMS on it if need be.  
> ... are not permitted to maintain the 8600
>unless they can bring up VMS on it...

Hmmm.  Strange.  You *could* run Ultrix.  Field Service only needs to
be able to boot the Diagnostics and you can do that from VMS or
Ultrix.  But it seems to me some, if not all of them are bootable off
of tape or even the boot media (rl02 pack).

Escalate!

Fred (you didn't hear this from me :-)) Avolio