Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu-cs!encore!xylogics!loverso From: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore Subject: Re: Things I miss.... Message-ID: <6917@xenna.Xylogics.COM> Date: 15 Aug 89 22:22:38 GMT References: <8908031737.AA08682@skeeve.mcs.anl.gov> <12006@xenna.Encore.COM> <1000@accuvax.nwu.edu> Reply-To: loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) Organization: Xylogics, Inc., Burlington MA Lines: 15 Actually, the two things I miss greatly are process arguments and working network code! (Not being able to reach BARRnet from NEARnet because the of 4.2-style IP TTL handling is sad). Thankfully, the network code has been taken care of in UMAX4.3 (hopefully, ptys too). However, the only way to get real argument lists out of a kernel is to run MACH instead of UMAX. Thankfully again, it is available now, albeit as a beta release. Additional pluses are that you also get 4.3BSD-Tahoe compatibility at the kernel and user code levels, with such bonuses as bind4.8, sendmail5.61, etc, all being standard and working. John (of course, the viewpoints above in no way reflect opinion at Xylogics)