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From: esj@stringbikini.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: 4.3 on the RT, request for problems, bugs, etc
Keywords: 4.3bsd, PC-RT, bugs
Message-ID: <20065@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Date: 13 Apr 89 00:46:25 GMT
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Reply-To: esj@stringbikini.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson)
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Well, We just got a 6150 here last weekend. It has 16M of memory
and 3 of the 310M drives. It does not have a display. We have
the Dec 88 AOS release.

Im actually quite impressed with the machine. Our goal is to
replace our old Vax 11/750 running BSD with it. The ole vax
is our uucp/news/nameserver/printserver/younameitserver for 
our dept, and much of our campus. Porting our software from
the Vax has been a joy. 

But thats not to say there haven't been problems... The first was
that no one mentioned that you need to have option SGP in kernel
config file. About four hours of testing various kernels found
that one out. The next surprise was that it didn't arrive with
bind 4.8 resolver routines in libc.a. I would have imagined 
a release dated 12-88 would have them. (Aside, does the 12/88 system
use the VJ congestion control tcp code. I haven't looked yet, but
after seeing bind 4.7.3, I am not optimistic.) The last bug I have
found so far was in the makefile in /usr/src/lib/libc/net. The
routine getnetgent.c uses alloca, but is not compiled with the
-ma flag. We make extensive use of yp netgroups to control access, 
and spent a bit of time scratching our heads wondering why finger
would dump core.

The AOS support number IBM gave us was a nice gesture, but the
people there have not been much help. I haven't called them personally
yet, but the word is their reply to the SGP problem was "You just have
to put it in some kernels", and the reply to the getnetgent problem
was "We don't run yp at all here". 

But, don't get me wrong, I LIKE this machine. It sure flys compared to
our 750. 

Eric

P.S. 
Does anyone know the AMP part number for the serial card cabels?