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From: (Stephen Tihor) <TIHOR@NYU-CMCL1.ARPA>

Sadly though there are not too many places you can buy well supported 4.2
SYSTEMS from yet.  We have several here at NYU and other than Mt. Xinu
and the hardware vendors no one was able to suggest a support alternative
better than "Well go and hire a Unix Wizard".  Now the hardware vendors
are companies small and large but as long as you code is portable it
can be moved.  Sadly, for our scientific users, few of the large
numerical codes and libraries are written in C.  Few vendors are really
good fortran compilers under 4.2.  The few than do usually don't have
IP/TCP working right.  The last couple of systems are almost livable
they'll get our business based on price/perfomance and maintanence
considerations.

	Unlike some sites we don;t have that many problems with DEC FS.
Sometimes you have to train a new CE on how to install a new kind of
system or what to check.  But whenever we get a real bozo we just recycle
him and DEC send us someone else. So we have three times as many cycles
of VAXen...and five times as many usable cycles.

 \\   Stephen Tihor / CIMS / NYU / 251 Mercer Street  / New York, NY 10012  //
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