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From: wagner@utcs.uucp (Michael Wagner)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Unix on top of/in parallel with other operating systems
Message-ID: <1143@utcs.uucp>
Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 12:01:39 EST
Article-I.D.: utcs.1143
Posted: Thu Mar  6 12:01:39 1986
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Reply-To: wagner@utcs.UUCP (Michael Wagner)
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services, general purpose UNIX
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Summary: 

In article <1461@brl-smoke.ARPA> bzs%bostonu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>(re: AMDAHL's UTS)
>> How about ethernet and TCP/IP?
>
>Actually, good question. We run WISCNET thru a DACU (ethernet) on our
>3090. It appears to me that at the lowest level all we would need to
>access TCP/IP from UTS would be a VMCF library. Is there any work
>going on to do this? VMCF access would be minimal necessary, 
>
>	//BARRY.SHEIN UNIV=BOSTON


Our experience in the past was that AMDAHL would not do any work to
support such an environment, probably because they don't make DACUs.
We went to them, long ago (before we dumped UTS) with a suggestion that
they put TERMCAP into the Series/1 (which we use exclusively as front-ends),
but they rejected the idea 'because they don't make Series/1s'.
Instead they went with their silly (my opinion) full-duplex support through
the 3705 support, which is a much more expensive solution (but they make
a 3705 look-alike).

This attitude of AMDAHL marketing that UTS exists only to bolster AMDAHL
hardware sales is a large part of why we got rid of it.

Michael Wagner (wagner@utcs)