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From: tjd@leopold.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc
Subject: Re: UPDATE on UNIX?
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Date: 18 Jul 90 17:29:27 GMT
References: <1990Jul16.163518.29951@athena.mit.edu> <1990Jul13.125215.3190@cid.aes.doe.CA>
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In article <1990Jul16.163518.29951@athena.mit.edu>,
purdon@athena.mit.edu (James R Purdon) writes:

> In article <1990Jul13.125215.3190@cid.aes.doe.CA>
afsipmh@cid.aes.doe.CA (Patrick Hertel) writes:
> >
> > We are in the process of going from NOS and NOS/VE to UNIX. Is there a UNIX
> >version of UPDATE available comercially or otherwise. I know Cray has it
> >in UNICOS. We have CDC 910s and 920's
> 
> I think you should look into a product called "historian", which provides 
> UPDATE compatibility.  ETA Systems used it as a replacement for UPDATE
> (before the plug was pulled) and I've also seen it running on VMS VAXs.

Watch out for this. Historian is a variant on Scope update, later on the
205. This is
NOT ANYWHERE NEAR the same as update on NOS & NOS/BE, or SCU on NOS/VE.

We were playing with using historian at ETA for source release of the OS
and compiler on
EOS, but not, never, no way on UNIX.

Tom

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