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From: dao@cs.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tahoe
Subject: Re: Yes, there are other people reading this group
Keywords: cci, power6, reliability, editors
Message-ID: <1902@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 16 Jun 88 08:15:51 GMT
References: <5147@hqda-ai.ARPA>
Reply-To: dao@cs.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)
Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, Nottingham University, UK
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In article <5147@hqda-ai.ARPA> jay@hqda-ai.ARPA (Jay Hiser) writes:
>I've just taken over a sys admin job on an OFFICE POWER site
>(fortunately, none of the GS types are using unix!) that includes 3
>Power 6/32s, approx 29 mighty Power 5/20s, and innumerable power
>terms.  Having grown up on a VAX, BSD, vt100 environment, it is going
>to take a while to adjust.  I'm told that none of the 6s has broken
>for 6 months, so I can't ask for more reliability than that (the VAXes
>broke weekly).

yes, hardware reliability is the impression I get from our Power 6/32,
although we had the Instruction Processor board replaced two weeks
ago because of parity errors in the instruction cache.  some email
responses I had to my earlier "tahoe sites, where are you?" posting
criticised the xfd drives for failing regularly, but we haven't had
our system long enough to find out about that ;-)
of course, we all take regular backups, don't we, so disk failures
aren't a problem, are they?

>To answer the emacs question, some of the CCI guys have got GNU emacs
>18.50 on their P6 & also have a pt.el file for the powerterm.  I'm not
>sure if my staff will be able to handle emacs without losing gray
>matter, so I still might be looking for jove.  Oh yes, someone else at
>CCI is using micro-emacs.

I use microEmacs 3.8b ok under SysV.2 (release 2.11.02, which is old now)
and have the latest jove to work on, but haven't unpacked it yet.
a colleague has the latest GNU Emacs to implement, likewise, but I know
that an identical machine to ours, at the University of Bath, is running
GNU Emacs (I forget which version).

>I'll be posting again as soon as I start to get ambitious (elm, news,
>rn, less, etc.).

I've only got 'less', out of those.
which flavour and release of OS are you running, SysV or BSD?

dave
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David Osborne
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