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From: mike@ai.etl.army.mil (Mike McDonnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: 3B2/600 questions
Message-ID: <367@ai.etl.army.mil>
Date: 10 Nov 89 19:47:10 GMT
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Organization: USAETL, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
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Please excuse me if some of these questions have been answered here
before, but I just became aware of the incredible prices I can get a
3B2/600 for under an Air Force contract and I need some information
about the computer that the contract literature did not provide.  Here
they are:

1. What is the (approximate of course) MIPS rating of the 3B2/600 with a
24MHz CPU board?  What is the MFLOPS?

2. What is the "industry standard bus" used?

3. RFS comes with the computer.  Is NFS available from somewhere?

4. Can programmers get at the other processors that you get with the
multiprocessor board or is this just used invisibly by the kernel to do
I/O or some such?  It would be nice to try out some parallel programming.

5. Do the internet programs "named" and "egp" or their equivalents run
on the 3B2?  If they do, where do I get them?  I don't want to go back
to copying host tables.

6. Is anybody working on porting the FSF C compiler, gcc, to the 3B2?
What about g++?

7. Anybody compiled the X Window System public distribution (X11.3) on
the 3B2?

8. Finally, are there archives for comp.sys.att where I can look stuff
up for myself?


Thanks for taking the time to answer.  These computers look pretty good
but I have to know how much of our current environment (VAX, 4.3BSD, X,
Arpanet) I can retain if I buy one.
-- 
Mike McDonnell at the U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories, Bldg. 2592
Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5546   TEL:(202)355-2716   NET: mike@etl.army.mil