Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!bridge2!mips!daver!leadsv!practic!brunner From: brunner@practic.UUCP (Thomas Eric Brunner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: BSD operating system on RTs? Message-ID: <48170@practic.UUCP> Date: 10 May 91 18:03:09 GMT References: <1991May6.200858.11411@news.nd.edu> Reply-To: brunner@practic.UUCP (Thomas Eric Brunner) Organization: Practical Computing Inc., Sunnyvale Lines: 47 In article <1991May6.200858.11411@news.nd.edu> suhardjo@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu writes: >I'm thinking of replacing the AIX with BSD on my RTs. How much will it >cost? > >-- > > ____________________________________________________________________________ >| Johanes Suhardjo | Civil Engineering | >| suhardjo@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu | University of Notre Dame | >| johanes@newton.ce.nd.edu | P.O. Box 825, Notre Dame, IN 46556 | > ____________________________________________________________________________ Johanes, the IBM/4.3 product was withdrawn in December of last year, so in practical terms the cost is infinite -- IBM will not sell it to you under any circumstances. It may be the case that Notre Dame already has one or more rt's running IBM/4.3 (aka "ACIS", "AOS", or perhaps "Berkeley Unix"), according to my copy of the customer list, Notre Dame is a University Customer of IBM 4.3, and a Dr. Chong Lee is listed as the point of contact at Notre Dame. I suggest that you speak with Dr. Lee or his/her replacement and locate your September and/or December 1988 distribution tapes, or the Notre Dame network loader host, and do an installation from either of those two sources. Note that you _must_ have a binary-only C compiler (Metaware), I think that the release level at that time was 2.1n (use cc -v, or ar t on an available .c or .a files, resp.), and the last version of the compiler I released prior to the end of support for the products (4.3 as well as all of the 3rd party licensed compilers) was 2.1y. If you get this far (install the September release or the December upgrade), you may wish to install some or all of the patches I've posted to this news group since May 1989 when I started supporting the product. These are all available with the exception of the 3rd party compilers via anonymous FTP from bikini.cis.ufl.edu (aka "ufl.edu"). There are quite a few cooperating sites running 4.3bsd on the RT in the US and abroad. In Indiana are is the Bloomington and Indianapolis campus of the State University system, and Purdue. Let me know if you decide to take the trouble to replace AIX 2.2.1 with IBM/4.3, I'll be happy to help via email and/or phone. -- #include Eric Brunner 4bsd/RT Project inet: brunner@monet.berkeley.edu uucp: uunet!practic!brunner trying to understand multiprocessing is like having bees live inside your head.