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From: hzatz@tybalt.caltech.edu (Harold R. Zatz)
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Subject: HPUX 7.0: Was Re: HP Optical When???
Summary: What's coming out in HPUX 7.0 (really)
Keywords: HPUX 7.0 optical disk
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Date: 19 Dec 89 21:54:01 GMT
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In article <47500020@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> spirit@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Does anybody have any idea IF or WHEN HP is going
>to consider manufacturing an HP-IB Optical disk
>drive???
>
>			John Kemp

Well, I just got back from an HPUX 7.0 class at the local HP office. They
had on display as a working demo an HP optical disk drive with the infamous
HP manual and X manual browser running. This was a read-only optical drive.
I don't know when you can buy one :-), but the driver for the optical drive
is supposed to be included in HPUX 7.0. The drive will cost $1990. Optical
disks are 20-50 times slower than hard drives.

Since I have the HPUX 7.0 release booklet in front of me, I may as well let
you people know what is actually in it.

(1) Rumors to the contrary, Series 800's in general cannot go diskless with
    HPUX 7.0. Only a new machine, the HP9000/815 can boot diskless. I was
    informed at the meeting that other series 800's will not go diskless
    in the immediate future. The 815's have a different backplane that allows
    the communication card direct access to the memory bus, which allows
    diskless operation. (Don't ask me-- I'm not really sure why a LAN card
    couldn't be made to work anyway, if slower.)
(2) On 9000/800's, C goes to ANSI standard. On 9000/300's a preprocessor will
    be provided for ANSI C. All include files on both machines will be
    ANSI C standard.
(3) BIND domain nameserver comes with ARPA services. (named & named support)
(4) Many job control functions are changed to bring some compliance with
    POSIX-- setpgrp, setpgrp2, ioctl, SIGCONT, and lots of other stuff.
(5) X goes to 11R3. The class' instructors were also... how shall I say...
    amused by MIT's recent release of 11R4. 11R4 will probably come with
    HPUX 8.0 mid to late in the year.
(6) A new concept called "dynamic swap" will allow you to use free space in
    a filesystem as extra swap space, used only on demand.
(7) C2 security and auditing is supported.
(8) Remote backups (rdump & rrestore) are supported.

There was lots of other stuff, but these are the high points.

Remember-- you heard it here last.

--Harold

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