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From: gdueck@watmsg.waterloo.edu (Gery Dueck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: New Apollo User
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Date: 27 Jun 88 17:34:59 GMT
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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.