Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: ACCESS TO SHARED TAPEDRIVES Message-ID: <3053@phri.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 20:50:33 EST Article-I.D.: phri.3053 Posted: Sat Dec 5 20:50:33 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 22:08:16 EST References: <6740@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3254@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 24 In article <3254@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ggs@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Griff Smith) writes: > I built it for 4.[23]BSD using C++. Since I work for AT&T and we are > pushing another brand of UNIX System, I probably have to port all the > Berkeley network and select stuff [...] That an AT&T employee would rather use a foreign, unsupported product than his own company's native, supported, official "one true Unix" says more about the relative merits of the two versions than anything I can think of. > I would like to get some idea of real demand for resource allocation > software. Would anyone actually pay for it, or must it be freeware? Difficult question. Yes, I would love to have it. No, I wouldn't pay for it. But then, being in an academic environment, there isn't much software that I *do* pay for. In a commercial setting, I could very well see myself forking over some cash for such an allocator (assuming it really works and is convenient to use); better than explaining to the boss why his valued tape got overwritten by somebody else who happend to run his tar on the wrong drive, without complaint from the system. -- Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016