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From: shan@mcf.UUCP (Sharan Kalwani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ultrix == Unix
Message-ID: <188@mcf.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 88 15:46:20 GMT
References: <3464@cbmvax.UUCP> <5533@swan.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: shan@mcf.UUCP (Sharan Kalwani)
Organization: Michigan Cancer Foundation, Detroit, MI
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In article <5533@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) wrote:
>>about the time 4.3 BSD comes with DECnet, LAT, disk based partition
>>tables and now NFS, I'll have it running here a week later.

George,

One can get 4.3 BSD with NFS I think Mt. Xinu does that already. About LAT's
there are other solutions too. Is DECNET such a big deal right now? 
You can consider other protocols and be eminently compatible with 
lots of systems around.

>Interesting that some sites try to get their UNIX machines to look
>like VMS boxes (at least as far as functionality goes), while others
>are trying to get their VMS machines to look like UNIX boxes...

Touche, Bob!

>Administration here is threatening to trade my 750 (4.3) for an
>8000-class machine.  I hope I can convince them to make it an 8200 so
 ^^^^

 Well if the admin types don't know any better, why not plug for an
 8600 or 8650 ?  It should satisfy their way of looking at things.

 Now that's the ticket :-)


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