Xref: utzoo comp.arch:22577 comp.unix.ultrix:7188 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!jallen From: jallen@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Joseph Allen) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: ACE, buses, and the future of ultrix Message-ID: <1991May10.190212.22677@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 10 May 91 19:02:12 GMT References: <32459@usc> <816@cadlab.sublink.ORG> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 20 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes: >In article <816@cadlab.sublink.ORG>, martelli@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli) writes: >> I hope this last rumor is wildly unfounded??? We're evaluating a centralized >> NFS server, and DS5500 was looking pretty good, but I would be VERY hesitant >> to place in such a crucial hub role in our LAN a box from a company who has >> just decided its system software is better manufactured by somebody else! >Given DEC's past problems with system software, I see this as a hopeful sign. >After all, you were already getting ready to buy a DEC product with a mostly >third-party O/S. Why not make it explicit? DEC is even reselling 386 PCs manufactured by Radio Shack (and that particular PC is the best computer I've ever seen Radio Shack make) -- /* jallen@ic.sunysb.edu */ /* Amazing */ /* Joe Allen 129.49.12.74 */ int a[1817];main(z,p,q,r){for(p=80;q+p-80;p-=2*a[p])for(z=9;z--;)q=3&(r=time(0) +r*57)/7,q=q?q-1?q-2?1-p%79?-1:0:p%79-77?1:0:p<1659?79:0:p>158?-79:0,q?!a[p+q*2 ]?a[p+=a[p+=q]=q]=q:0:0;for(;q++-1817;)printf(q%79?"%c":"%c\n"," #"[!a[q-1]]);}