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From: spw2562@ritcv.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.works
Subject: Re: Masscomp
Message-ID: <9073@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 13:53:42 EST
Article-I.D.: ritcv.9073
Posted: Mon Nov 25 13:53:42 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Nov-85 04:07:19 EST
References: <275@tut.UUCP>
Reply-To: spw2562@ritcv.UUCP (Snoopy)
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Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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Keywords: masscomp real-time unix
Summary: Crashcomp, Trashcomp

In article <275@tut.UUCP> jty@tut.UUCP (Jyrki Yli-Nokari) writes:
>Masscomp offers a very nice-looking machine with MC68020 cpu
>and their RTU (Real-Time Unix) v3.0 which is claimed to
>be full SysV and full Berkeley 4.2 at the same time.
>
>Does anybody out there have any experiencies about this
>or any Masscomp? Can I run GNUemacs on a Masscomp (RMS?).
>
>...mcvax!tut!jty.UUCP			! I know all about FORTH.
>Jyrki Yli-Nokari			! I saw a TV-program about it once

We have 5 masscomps here at RIT, 3 are faculty only, and the students are
very happy about that.  They'd be even happier if all 5 were faculty only,
but that would upset the faculty a great deal.  Around here we call them
trashcomps or crashcomps.  RTU v3.0 is pretty sad, too.  RIT has the only
source license in existance for it, and it's a good thing, cause the way I
hear it, they have to keep cleaning up the bugs in the software.  I wrote
my own routine to send stuff to the printer because lpr doesn't work.  I
could tell you lots more bugs, but my concious mind can't take it, so my
sub-concious makes me forget them 8-).

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    Disclaimer:  What I just said may or may not have anything to do
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