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From: rey@safn2.UUCP (rey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Summary - migration of Tower 32/450 from NCR Unix 2.01.01 to 3.00.01.
Summary: Installation of SeaChange disk not covered by maintenance agreement.
Keywords: migrate
Message-ID: <965@safn2.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 91 19:26:45 GMT
References: <959@safn2.UUCP> <349@fdls.odag.or.gov>
Organization: Southern Aluminum Finishing, Atlanta, GA
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In article <349@fdls.odag.or.gov>, dougw@fdls.odag.or.gov (Doug Walker) writes:
> 
> 02.01.01.  I also found it extremely interesting that NCR did the hardware
> install.  Will they cover your Tower under maintenance?  In our case, we sub
> contracted with Sea Change for the install.  NCR will work on our Tower on a
> time and materials basis but will not cover it under maintenance because they
> consider it to be "non standard".  As an aside, Sea Change Drives can normally
We had to do some other stuff also - added a parrallel port to the
bulkhead. I also wanted to watch in case I had to swap disks to recover a file I
missed with cpio. I did do this a couple of times as it turned out.
I did not mean to imply that installation was "free". We paid for time
by the hour. I put the maintenance question to NCR: "SeaChange will cover
this drive on a Fed Xpress swap out basis. Do you want to include it, or
drop the disk from the maint agreement? I think the money is about the same;
but I would rather deal with one maint service - NCR."
Local NCR hardware called back Monday to see how the installation went.
I told them "Everything went OK. Are you going to cover the drive?"
They said "I think so, I am checking with my boss."
> 
> Have you considered using the Unify menu system instead of the NCR menu
> system?  I've used the Unify menu system on a continuing basis on several
> different computers since 1983 and have found it to satisfy our application
> menu needs quite nicely.  All users (other than a few hackers like myself who
We have several databases with different ENTERs. Perhaps I should consider
combining them; but it does make reconfiguring easier. We do not have to
shut down all users when we add a field. I also thought ENTER was kind of
big to have up all the time. The menus we wrote are for calling Dun&Bradstreet
for credit reports, word processing and spread sheets on Uniplex, news,
vi to edit rosters, and that kind of stuff. Of course, picking the right
unify application also.
> 
> How much RAM do you have?  I understand that 03.xx.xx gobbles up more RAM than
> 02.xx.xx.  We currently have 12 mb of RAM and 32 ports.  We hope to be able to
We have 8MB which is max for the 32/450. I raised MAXUMEM in the kernel
to 2MB to improve the results we were getting from a sheet cutting
optimization application we wrote. We will see if that impacts performance.
So far we still feel that our tower is running faster now than before.
This is confirmed by time stamps on cron jobs that run at night. Jobs
that ran 8 min now run 6. (real time) Mostly Unify SQL. Most comments I have
gotten attribute this to the new disk.
-- 
Reynolds McClatchey (Southern Aluminum Finishing Co, Atlanta, GA, USA)
Architectural Aluminum. Custom Fabrication. Paint, Powder Coating, Anodizing.
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