Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!emory!att!att!watmath!watserv1!ria!ria.ccs.uwo.ca!pyue From: pyue@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (Paul Yue, CCS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cdc Subject: Re: NOS/VE Message-ID: Date: 26 Sep 90 19:46:54 GMT Sender: pyue@ria.ccs.uwo.ca Distribution: comp Organization: Univ. Western Ontario, London Ont. CA Lines: 25 I've talked to the the Cyber support dude here (who also happens to know a thing or two about emacs), and according to him, emacs should work with the new C compiler from CDC. Unfortunately, this new compiler is priced around CDN$15000, so we have been unable to try it out. Locally, we can get a display of all jobs running on the system (batch, system, interactive, etc) by using the command display_all_jobs. I guess this is a local command? We also have an InterNet finger server that does this disaj command at a finger request (there isn't an /etc/passwd file that it can read names from though, and this server won't show last login times). NOS/VE has a lot of tricks up its sleeve, that casual users never know about, eg. job scheduling. We have our Cyber set up here to incrementally demote a job's priority with increasing continual CPU usage. Helps keep things moving when there's a lot of jobs going. The virtual DAS is very nice too. We're going to be getting a Cyber 2000 soon, and our Cyber guru can't wait to install X windows on it to give it a go. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul K. Yue pyue@{uwo.ca|nve.uwo.ca|uwovax.bitnet} uunet!watmath!ria!pyue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computing and Communications Services Natural Sciences Centre, UWO London, Ontario N6A 5B7 Canada Voice:(519) 661-3525 FAX:(519) 661-3486