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From: landauer@drivax.UUCP (Doug Landauer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: VME/10s and System V/68 Unix. Do they exist?
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Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 18:09:45 EST
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Robert Kenyon (...lanl!nmtvax!robert) asks:

>     Does anyone out there run Unix System V/68 on VME/10s?

Yep, we have several of them here.

> Has anyone
> kept up to date with the updates?  Has anyone (including Motorola)
> even bothered with them?

Yep; system V/68, Release 2.8 is actually worth using.  (Much faster than
Release 2.7 was.)  There is still no "shl" (shell layers -- Bell's (oops,
AT&T's) answer to csh's job control) yet, and their shell has no shell
functions yet, but otherwise the software seems pretty solid.  (But don't
try ptrace with an odd address...)

> Am I the only one that thinks the 
> keyboards are garbage?

Is there anyone out there who thinks they're not?
Don't even think of using "vi" with them.  Try emacs instead.
If you have enough memory.  Less than 1 Meg is just asking for
trouble.

Other notes:

Don't rely too heavily on the serial card (MVME400), and thoroughly test
the ones you get.  (Unless they're connected to a generous terminal like
a Zenith/Heath 29, you'll need a cable with pins 5,6,8 and 20 all wired
in common on the VME side.)  When the card goes bonkers, reboot.  The
serial driver will need to be improved before they'll sell many of these
machines.


			-- Doug Landauer --
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