Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!hplabs!sri-unix!cowan@Udel-Relay.ARPA From: cowan@Udel-Relay.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: new kids ask for help Message-ID: <12193@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Apr-84 11:53:22 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12193 Posted: Wed Apr 11 11:53:22 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Apr-84 06:57:46 EST Lines: 31 From: Ken Cowan Anne, Welcome to net land. If everyone on your machine is running Unix software, the justification ought to be easy. Although I am not familiar with the internals of Eunice, its slowness should be attributable to the fact that you have another layer of software between you and the machine. In a *native* unix environment, you talk directly to the operating system for os type things. In an Eunice environment, Eunice must interceed for you and ask the operating system (VMS) for what you want. The problem is that there might be a reason that Eunice is necessary. It is possible that the machine needs to run software (most likely proprietary) that is not available to run on Unix and so must run VMS. Is so, Eunice is probably there to permit the VMS machine to communicate with Unix machines in your network. I happen to like VMS, so I would be careful to choose the operating system I use based on the avaiablity of the software I need. I would not just chuck VMS out the window because it is chic. Good luck. Ken