Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: seamans@seaimage.nlm.nih.gov (James R. Seamans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Solbourne and Sun Compatibility Keywords: No Digest Subjects during Flush Message-ID: <4031@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 27 Jun 91 20:22:00 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sunspots, Flush Mode Lines: 33 Approved: sun-spots@rice.edu X-Original-Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 18:01:29 GMT In article <3808@brchh104.bnr.ca> qmrward@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au writes: >Are there any reliability or compatibility problems with Solbourne systems >in comparison to Suns ?? > >Please post replies. > >Chris Ward >QIMR >Brisbane AUSTRALIA >E-mail QMRWARD@UQVAX.CC.UQ.EDU.AU We currently have three Solbourne S4000 systems ( one week old ) running in a heavy Sun envirnoment. If you ignore that they are still using OS 4.0.3, the systems slid into the network without a hitch. This was in all aspects, NIS, printers, NFS the works. We are expecting OS 4.1 by the end of June which will aleivate some software incompatibility problems in the libraries. ============================================================= Jim Seamans seamans@nlm.nih.gov High Resolution Medical Imaging Group (HRMIG) National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health Bldg 38A RM 712 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894 (voice) 301 496-4441 (fax) 301 402-0118 -- ============================================================= Jim Seamans seamans@nlm.nih.gov High Resolution Medical Imaging Group (HRMIG) National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health