Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!tkou02.enet.dec.com!diamond From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) Newsgroups: comp.unix.large Subject: Re: Subject of newsgroup (was Re: Hello) Message-ID: <1990Sep12.003146.7504@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Date: 12 Sep 90 00:31:46 GMT References: <6f7y02Ubc6wm01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <25894@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo Lines: 54 Mr. Kluft's article appears to have some news that might be relevant to many readers of this newsgroup. Therefore I am reposting it with "Distribution: world". (We received a copy because our news machine thinks it's in the U.S.A. Sorry to send a second copy to other readers who receive "Distribution: usa". I don't know how to exclude a country.) In article ikluft@tde.uts.amdahl.com (Ian Kluft) writes: >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >In article <25894@boulder.Colorado.EDU> huntting@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Brad Huntting) writes: >> [...] What I want to know is what is this newsgroup for? And who created it? > >This newsgroup was created through the official voting process. It was among >several separately-voted issues that reorganized comp.unix. > >The newsgroup is intended for discussion of issues that are unique to large >(i.e. mainframe or parallel) Unix installations. Any of the following are >good examples: (importance of these will vary between organizations) >- many typical CPU-bound tasks become I/O-bound on a large system >- how do you manage a "disk farm" on a Unix system? >- is your site having problems putting more than 1024 tty lines on one machine? >- mainframe users expect access to tapes to be handled by a tape operator >- mainframes make excellent file servers but some planning is helpful >- how can you get the most out of both mainframes and workstations at one site? >This is by no means a complete list of the large Unix systems issues. > >To this I'll add some of the things that we at Amdahl have done to address >these issues >- Amdahl Unix "UTS" has broken the 1024-port barrier and has sites running > in that configuration >- competiton for tape devices is arbitrated by software and a tape operator >- We use UTS systems as giant file servers >- The same systems run just fine with hundreds of users logged in >- UTS runs equally well in native mode or as a guest of VM >- we support both 3270 and ASCII terminals > (but workstations seem to be preferred :-) > >-- >signature follows >^L >Ian Kluft == == == >UTS Systems Software == == == >Amdahl Corportation ======= == ==== ==== ======= ======= == ====== == >Santa Clara, CA ======== ============ ======== ======== ========= == > == == == == == == == == == == >ikluft@uts.amdahl.com ======= == == == == == ======= == == == > ======== == == == == == ======== == == == > Amdahl mainframes == == == == == == == == == == == == >are the largest Unix ======== == == == ======== ======== == == == >systems in the world ===== == == == == ======== ===== == == == == -- Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC diamond@tkovoa.enet.dec.com (tkou02 is scheduled for demolition) We steer like a sports car: I use opinions; the company uses the rack.