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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.arch
Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 info.
Keywords: 3100, Advantedge 2000
Message-ID: <705@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 89 21:51:07 GMT
References: <979@isieng.UUCP> <85330@sun.uucp>
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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In article <85330@sun.uucp>, khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) writes:
> 	............. If you like Ultrix on your VAX, perhaps
> 	you will like it on your MIPS box. But if you come from
> 	any other unix environment it is quite a change.

  Sorry, but coming from Ultrix and porting to Sun and (mainly) "generic" MIPS, 
  I haven't seen this "quite a change".  Except, at times, with fortran.  But
  we always had problems porting fortran between DEC machines........

> 
>.... code (100+K lines of fortran) ran on their VAX, their Sun, their
> SGI IRIS, and etc., but after considerable effort it is still not
> running on the 3100. 
> 
  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny