Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watmsg!gdueck From: gdueck@watmsg.waterloo.edu (Gery Dueck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: New Apollo User Message-ID: <19632@watmath.waterloo.edu> Date: 27 Jun 88 17:34:59 GMT Sender: daemon@watmath.waterloo.edu Distribution: na Lines: 25 I am thinking of purchasing a number of Apollo Dn4000 workstations and need answers to some questions that the salesmen cannot or will not answer 1) We are a VAX/VMS shop. I want to run 4.3BSD on the Apollo's. Is it possible to run NFS on both systems? Does NFS software come with the Apollo system? Where can I get NFS for VMS? The VAX already has ethernet (DECNET) ...will I also need TCP/IP for VMS? 2) Will I be able to use Xwindows on VMS terminal sessions? 3) Does the Apollo come with ditroff, pic, eqn, tbl, and MS macro package? Is there a previewer available for troff? Can I get software to produce troff output for an LN03? 4) Same as 2) except for TEX/LATEX. 5) Has anyone ported gcc and g++ onto the Apollo? (I can get the distribution tapes and do it myself, but it would be so much more convenient to get binaries.) I suspect the answer to all of the above is yes. What I need to know is which of the above are definitly not possible and the dollar costs of those that are possible.