Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!ucla-cs!dberry From: dberry@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Device Driver for TU81 + flame! Message-ID: <8600@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 23:11:32 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.8600 Posted: Wed Jan 29 23:11:32 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Feb-86 04:22:54 EST Reply-To: dberry@ucla-cs.UUCP (Dan Berry) Distribution: net Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 38 I am posting this for a guru friend at a site from which it is not as convenient to post. JST is Jerusalem Standard Time! ---------------- Date: 21 Jan 86 21:06:52 JST (Tue) From: Danny Braniss For some time now, actually more than three months, I have been trying to obtain info on the Tu81 unibus tape from DEC. Needless to say, I only got the runaround from DEC. At the moment, I have enough documentation to install, take apart, and maybe put together again the Tu81, (needless to say, we have a service agreement with DEC). Some facts: 1- The Tu81 is a unibus tape that talks something called TMSCP, a big brother of MSCP. 2- Ultrix will support it, but not yet. 3- System V does not. 4- 4.2/3BSD: Berkeley is uncommitted. I can only come to the following conclusions: 1- There is some kind of conspiracy to kill Unix, at least in what new DEC equipment is concerned. 2- It is obvious that DEC is trying, and succeeding(?), in pushing VMS, which of course supports the TU81. 3- Since we have no intentions in switching to VMS, and as far as I am concerned, this was the last piece of equipment that we are buying from dec. There are nicer, faster and cheaper cpu's around. Or: DEC is again blundering it. Grrrrrrrrrrr....... Has anyone anywhere managed to get up a device driver for this tapedrive that is useable or portable to 4.2??? danny danny@hujics.bitnet (Since this one is cheaper).