Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!hal!oxtrap!rich
From: rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Query about the quality of UNIX/PCs and 3b1's (really 3b1 unix)
Message-ID: <2771@oxtrap.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 88 12:35:09 GMT
References: <9691@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <18017@clyde.ATT.COM> <997@bakerst.UUCP> <1146@mtunb.ATT.COM> <2420@oxtrap.UUCP> <2208@crash.cts.com> <2519@oxtrap.UUCP> <658@nitrex.UUCP>
Reply-To: rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Organization: Oxford, Ann Arbor
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In article <658@nitrex.UUCP> rbl@nitrex.UUCP ( Dr. Robin Lake ) writes:
>In article <2519@oxtrap.UUCP> rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill) writes:
>>In article <2208@crash.cts.com> ford%kenobi@crash.CTS.COM (Michael Ditto) writes:
>>>In article <2420@oxtrap.UUCP> rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill) writes:
>>>>
>>>>3b1 Unix was written by Convergent Technologies.  The C compiler is
>>>>the most obvious clue.
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>Once upon a time, about 3 years ago, when we had a Motorola-CT 6300 on  loan,
>we noted that the AT&T PC 7300 and Motorola 6300 were BINARY COMPATIBLE!
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>I have not tried the compatibility with the Motorola 6600 (CT MegaFrame) as
>the separate I/O processors seem baroque.  Someday .....

They work.

In case you don't recognize me, I have been rich@cwruecmp, rich@hal,
rich@rexago1, krm@cwruecmp, etc. and you once interviewed me.  While I
was rich@rexago1 I was running a csh from nitrex on 3b1's.  I recently
had the opportunity to run that same csh on a Burroughs XE550,
basically a remarketted MegaFrame.

rich.

ps, the 3b1 now in my home, sendai,  runs a legitimate copy of ksh.