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From: wlm@archet.UUCP (William L. Moran Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: BSD Unix on 6150-135?
Keywords: RT BSD
Message-ID: <45@archet.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 89 02:25:54 GMT
References: <1966@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <28304@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: wlm@archet.UUCP (William L. Moran Jr.)
Organization: A Desperate and Dedicated Crew
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In article <28304@bu-cs.BU.EDU> eap@bu-it.bu.edu (Eric Pearce) writes:
>In article <1966@nmtsun.nmt.edu> peter@hydrovax.nmt.edu says:
...
>>   We have been toying for some time with the idea of running 4.3 BSD on
>>our RT, being as RT-AIX is not a useful operating system. The IBM reps
...
>
>  As far as I know, there are no hardware differences that prevent you
>  from running 4.3. If you plan to make it a usable workstation, you
>  need to have a monitor such as the "megapel", as the smaller PS2-like
>  vga ones are just too small for a windowing system like X.  It's well 
>  worth your ime to switch over to 4.3, as most of the public domain software
>  that I have tried will run with few changes.  It also comes with
>  lots of neat software from Project Athena.  
>

I thought I would contribute my $0.02 to this. If you think that there
is any chance that you may want or need to use a serial connection to
the RT (i.e. serial line or modem), then don't switch to 4.3. It pains
me to say this because I really despise AIX. The problem is that the
async support on ACIS RTs is totally broken. This holds true for 
the 025, 125 and 135 running any version of ACIS. *sigh* So, if you
switch you'll be getting into an incredible mess.

On the brighter side, the 135 with a megapel running 4.3 is quite a
nice workstation. The 4.3 works quite well (with the exception of the
async support). Also, the sources are in slightly different form than
the generic Berkeley distribution, but that's minor.

			   Bill Moran
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