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From: gunnar@hafro.UUCP (Gunnar Stefansson)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: uucp on IX/370
Message-ID: <291@hafro.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Nov-86 13:17:06 EST
Article-I.D.: hafro.291
Posted: Mon Nov  3 13:17:06 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Nov-86 06:24:59 EST
References: <285@hafro.UUCP>
Reply-To: gunnar@hafro.UUCP (Gunnar Stefansson)
Organization: Marine Research Institute, Reykjavik.
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In article <285@hafro.UUCP> I asked :
>
>Does anyone have experience with using uucp over a modem on an IBM
>machine running IX/370 under VM ? 

and whether anyone had tried receiving news on these machines.

Since I've been asked to post a summary of the replies, here we go
(the replies are interpreted by me -- I accept responsibility for
possible misinterpratation) :

There were only two replies, neither of whom was from a person who
had experience with IX/370. I wonder if that means that there is no
IBM machine on the net ? :-)

One reply was from an Amdahl person, who said they were running uucp
and the netnews software under UTS with no problems. No comments
about IX/370. The other reply was from a person who had worked close
to an IX/370-system. The claim was that uucp running on even a big IBM
would not work very well. This would not be the fault of the IBM or
IX/370, but the Series/1 front end and its serial interfaces. The
serial lines were claimed to be poorly designed so that the S/1 can
only support one or two 1200 baud uucp connections (even then with
lost characters).

Note that these claims are not mine. Some response would be well
appreciated, though.

--Gunnar


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Gunnar Stefansson                       {mcvax,seismo}!enea!hafro!gunnar 
Marine Research Institute, Reykjavik    gunnar@hafro