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From: jrich@ncc1701.ucr.edu (John Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Third party disks for Encore Multimax?
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Date: 8 Jun 89 14:58:22 GMT
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We picked up an Encore Multimax for a good price
and we are now thinking about trying to integrate into
our network of mostly Suns.  Compared to prices for Suns,
the prices for disk and a Pascal compiler seem pretty steep.

Does anybody have any experience attaching third party disks
to the Encore?  Will any embedded SCSI drive work?  Any recommendations?
Is there something about the Pascal compiler that makes it
worth more, i.e., is it parallelized (careful not to say
paralyzed :-)), exceptionally fast?
Are there any third party Pascal compilers that somebody
has used on the Encore?  Anything like a GNU pascal?

I have been told UMAX 4.3 will have full NFS support,
both server and client sides.  My informant did not know
if YP was included.  Does anybody know this?

Thanks,
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John Richardson, System Administrator   Internet: jrich@ucrmath.ucr.edu
Mathematics Department                  uucp: {ucsd, uci, ucdavis}!ucrmath!jrich
Univ. of California, Riverside          phone: (714) 787-3236