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Subject: Re: cu
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Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 08:27:46 EDT
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in article <6565@ism780c.UUCP>, mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic) says:

> From what I remember, the priorities are all wrong.  When I used to
> work at Ft. Huachuca (for MITRE Corp., then Intel Corp.) the 
> Executive Software People (who are the gov. part taking care of the 310's)
> wanted to install isolated sites first. Then, get on to the big
> neworks.  Also, there was more to getting the new release approaved.  For
> example, there were numerous modifications that had to be made to 
> iDIS, etc. to make it suitable to military users.

Ok Mike,
	I didn't get my version of 3.4 through the accepted chain of
distribution in the military.  I refused to used the iDIS system, for
reasons that I will go into if anyone is interested. 
	In light of that, I did not have to wait for the aspects of iDIS
to be worked out.  One of my biggest gripes about the whole contract the
military put together was the fact that the poeple in Arizona, got all the
equipment.  Last count, from what I heard, Greely Hall had in excess of 100
systems on the net, yes I know, they were not ALL 310 systems, but I believe
it demonstrates the Gross waste of resources at the top of the chain.
	Just to throw a little rap in, I loved the system.  With the removal
of some excess device drivers from the kernal, and finding the correct
tune. parm. combination, that little 286 system performed quite with 12 users,
all running Lyrix and Informix...
				gotta go, system comming down!
					john