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From: jesson@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (John Jesson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.v
Subject: Re: comp.os.v
Message-ID: <5890@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 24 Oct 88 01:11:00 GMT
References: <8810232014.AA16207@Pescadero>
Reply-To: jesson@killer.Dallas.TX.US (John Jesson)
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In article <8810232014.AA16207@Pescadero> mason@PESCADERO.STANFORD.EDU writes:
>>     Comp.os.v is a newsgroup for discussions of the V operating system,
>>developed by David Cheriton's group at Stanford.  It is not a widely used
>>system, even at Stanford, and is not likely to be; it's really a vehicle
>>for the development of new concepts in distributed processing.  It runs
>>primarily on original Stanford-built Sun I systems, back-ended by VAXen.
>>
>>					John Nagle
>
>Part of the above message is true, but part is not.  For the record, I work
>in the Distributed Systems Group (headed by David Cheriton) and I can
>faithfully attest that we no longer *support* the Sun-I, let alone use them
>for new development.  As for being "back-ended by VAXen" that isn't correct.
>We do have a VAX providing UNIX services, but most people within our group
>prefer using V here because it is so much faster.
>
   ...[other stuff deleted]

Well, I'm very interested in distributed O.S...  Do you think you could
summarize about Vs aims and purposes in life?  If an explanation would
be too involved, how about recent references/T.R.'s concerning V?


J.R. Jesson

jesson@nrl-excalibur.arpa