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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: To BNU or not to BNU
Message-ID: <21065@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 28 Apr 88 05:01:09 GMT
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Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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In article <675@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>As Rick and Carl do lots of cooperating, I'm sure any good features Rick does
>will show up in Pyramid the following morning.

That works both ways. My enhancements -- mostly in the dialers -- are given to
Rick to fold into 4.3BSD. Ricks fixes, which are more in the body of UUCP, get
passed on to me, and folded into the Pyramid release when I have time. I try
to run Rick's latest on my machines (Sun, Pyramid, PDP-11) to shake them down.

>I considered going to HoneyDanBer for Mirror Systems because of HDB's
>features, but came up with these arguments against them:
>
>	I got real good support from pyramid!csg; Err, I mean
>	from Pyramid Corp.  BNU is "good luck, sucker."

What Rich doesn't know is that Pyramid supports BNU, as of OSx 4.1. I admit
to not knowing its internals as well as 4.3BSD UUCP, but it is definitely not
an unsupported shot in the dark, as it was when you had to buy it from AT&T
and port it yourself.

Oh, and I got a wonderfully helpful notice from Karl Fox at Morningstar; the
X.25 card has a built-in UUCP dialer that we didn't even know was there. It is
primitive compared to the "gpsc" dialer in ucb UUCP, but it does the basic job
well and is usable from HoneyDanBer. I set up an L-devices chat script for it,
and that worked just fine; Dialers would work just as well. I will supply the
config information to RTOC for people who want it; requests -> pyramid!bugs.

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