Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site boring.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!boring!jack From: jack@boring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: 4.2BSD on uVaxII ?? Message-ID: <6413@boring.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-May-85 12:11:48 EDT Article-I.D.: boring.6413 Posted: Wed May 15 12:11:48 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 16-May-85 22:00:59 EDT References: <92@ecrcvax.UUCP> Reply-To: jack@boring.UUCP (Jack Jansen) Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 16 Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL In article <92@ecrcvax.UUCP> snoopy@ecrcvax.UUCP (Sebastian Schmitz) writes: >The $64,000 question: what about UNIX. Well needless to say not >4.2 (due to lack of Q-Bus device drivers) but rather ULTRIX 32m >(for MicroVAX). You've got me confused here. What's the difference between Q-bus device drivers and unibus device drivers? As far as I know, all the XXV-99 interfaces by DEC are software compatible with their unibus XX-99 brothers, or am I missing something here? Are there problems with unibus maps/qbus maps, or is something else the problem? -- Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP The shell is my oyster.