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From: johanes@lagrange.ce.nd.edu (Johanes Suhardjo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: BSD operating system on RTs?
Message-ID: <1991May13.141315.8410@news.nd.edu>
Date: 13 May 91 14:13:15 GMT
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In article <48170@practic.UUCP>, brunner@practic.UUCP (Thomas Eric Brunner) writes:
|>
|> Johanes, the IBM/4.3 product was withdrawn in December of last year, so in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 <std/disclaimer.h>
|> 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.


Thanks a lot for the information.  I don't know how much trouble it will
be.  For your information, these RT's have been dead for years.  I am 
just trying to ressurect them for fun.  If I work for half an hour a day, how long will it take to replace the AIX with BSD?  Any further
information will be appreciated.  In the mean time, I'll try to contact Dr. Chong Lee.
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| 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 | 
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