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From: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: News on CCI Power 6/32
Message-ID: <181@stcns3.stc.oz>
Date: 13 Jan 88 01:04:12 GMT
References: <171@stcns3.stc.oz> <2477@encore.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Organization: STC Pty Ltd, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA
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In article <2477@encore.UUCP> loverso@encore.UUCP (John Robert LoVerso) writes:
>Be careful!  There are a number of different ports of UNIX available for
>the Power6 (aka Tahoe, HXC-7, 7000/40).  CCI has System V, but used to
>have an awful 4.2 release.  I think Harris now has their own SysV/4.2
>combination.  Sperry only had what CCI.  Finally, Berkeley has true-blood
>4.3 (beta) for the machine, something that is now a few steps further
>than the official 4.3 release tape.  At a previous job, I had a 7000/40
>running 4.3 beta.

Interesting.  More versions of the "CCI" around than I thought!  So
who _really_ makes the box?  At the time of posting, I'd only been
with the machine for a month...

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