On Nov 10, 13:35, Carlos Murillo wrote:
> At 06:48 PM 11/9/01 GMT, Pete wrote:
> >On Nov 9, 9:46, Bill Pechter wrote:
> >> ---- On Fri, 09 Nov 2001, Geoff Reed (geoffr(a)zipcon.net) wrote:
> >> Most of the third party add on printer servers come with an lpr
> >> capability for Win9x and there's a shareware one on Simtel for
> >> Windows 3.x with a winsock.
> >>
> >> Lan Workplace also had one from Novell.
> >
> >You can also do it from any version of PCNFS.
>
> If I remember correctly, you need NIS in your
> network in order to be able to use PCNFS, right?
> I seem to recall that I did not choose PCNFS
> because of that several years ago.
You need NFS on the server, but not NIS, thank goodness. Anything that can
check the password for a username will do (eg /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow).
The way printing with PCNFS works is that your print server authenticates
with something running pcnfsd, then saves the file to be printed to a spool
directory on the server (needn't be the same server), and lastly sends a
command to the server to say "please print that". That's somewhat
oversimplified, but I think you'll get the gist.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
From: Carlini, Antonio <Antonio.Carlini(a)riverstonenet.com>
> > I always wondered what the VUP rating would have
> >been were they not emulated.
>
> Hopefully about the same, othewise they did
> a poor job of selecting instructions to subset!
> The instructions that they did not implement
> were those that were infrequently used and
> cost too much chip real-estate.
There was substanial analysis to determine the subset and
most frequently used. The emulated instructions even had
optimizations even though they fell into the infrequently used
bin.
Allison
Speaking of Cromemco, did you know (according to their literature) that
aside from naming the S-100 bus, they also developed:
-The first Z-80 micro
-The first multi-user micro
-The first Unix-like OS for a micro (Cromix)
-The first micro with a Winchester HD
-The first complete system with 16M/50MHD for <$50,000
-The first micro color graphics system
-The first micro addressing memory >64K
-The first micro with IBM RJE communication
-The first intelligent micro I/O interfaces with a CPU on I/O card
-The first micro implementation of I/O channel processors
-The first micro to boot from ROM without front panel switches
-The first self-programming EPROM card
-The first micro with error-correcting memory
-The first graphics system with hardware stenciling (whatever that is)
-The first micro graphics system capable of sync'ing to a TV broadcast
-The first micro with integrated floppy disks
And that in 1987 an XXU equipped system was almost twice as fast as a
VAX 11/780, which cost over four times as much as the largest Cromemco
system at the time.
> Carlos Murillo wrote:
>
>Didn't the uVax II implement some of the original VAX instructions
>with emulation?
Yes, as did the MicroVAX I. But IIRC it was with the
MicroVAX II that the architecture was formally
subsetted.
> I always wondered what the VUP rating would
have
>been were they not emulated.
Hopefully about the same, othewise they did
a poor job of selecting instructions to subset!
The instructions that they did not implement
were those that were infrequently used and
cost too much chip real-estate.
Antonio
arcarlini(a)iee.org
On November 10, Gene Ehrich wrote:
> >Wow, you left beautiful Laurel, Maryland for St. Petersburg, FL?!
>
> I left beautiful Marlton NJ for Spring Hill Florida and it's really tough.
> Every afternoon I have to take a nap out on the Lanai in 78 to 80 degree
> temperature and freeze at night as it gets down to chilly 60. I never get
> to use my heavy winter clothing and have to wear shorts year round. I don't
> get to see the beautiful snow, ice, hail and freezing temperatures of NJ.
> It's really tough.
Wow man, I feel for you. You really have it rough. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
On November 10, jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
> > Huh? 14" and 8" Eagles? Every Eagle I've ever seen has been a 10"
> > platter drive. Are there Eagles other than the M2351 and M2361?
> Hmm. The Eagles may be 10". I 've not seen that much of the big Eagles
> from inside and I never measured them. (Sorry. I am an european and I am
> not that used to that wired inch measurement. ;-) ) For the 8" drives:
> I know very well that they exist and that they are 8". AFAIK they are
> called Eagle too or Super Eagle. M-number? Hmm? M2223K? M2322K?
Ahh, you metric folk! ;)
The M2322K and family are indeed standard 8" form factor drives.
They're not called "Eagles" though, as far as I'm aware. I really
like those drives. Take an M2322K (or the larger M2372K/M2382K
models), stick it on an Emulex QD32 or QD33 controller, stick it in a
QBUS VAX...Nice! :-)
An interesting note...The HDA of an Eagle or Super Eagle drive is a
big aluminum casting that, to me, very much resembles the engine of a
Volkswagen. ;)
-Dave
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St. Petersburg, FL
On November 9, LFessen106(a)aol.com wrote:
> Yeah It can indeed, but you have to start somewhere right? :-) Anyhow Dave, did you finally get settled down there? I see you're finally getting to your emails again!
I'm at my mom's place in Treasure Island at the moment...I've got work
to do, and there's connectivity here. My stuff is piled up in boxes
at my new place in St. Petersburg about ten minutes away. I go over
there for a few hours every day and do more stuff. The next project
is to scope out the breaker box and put in two 30A 220V circuits for
the APC Matrix5000 UPSes and start putting the computer room together.
But for now I have my main desktop machine set up here at my mom's
place talking through the NATed network I put together for her. It's
working out pretty well so far; at least I can get some work done..
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
Hi guys,
Just had a MicroVAX II delivered. It's in an intresting configuration -
in two 19" racks :&)
Anyway, decided to work out what I've got and get things to a point
where I can get her up and running. Unfortunatly, she was
"decomissioned" using a rather large knife, or bolt cutters, judging from
>from the damage to just about every cable protruding from the back
(including cables connecting HDD's to CPU).
Just to summarise what there is (more complete list to follow when I
remember to take a pen and paper with me to the office):
o two SMD HDD's - I'll get make/model next time I'm down
o a cipher (?) tape drive (9 track I think?) - again, I'll have to get the
model number later
o two BA23 cases (which I brought home to check out)
It looks awfully as if someone else has pulled some cards at some point,
but here's what's in the BA23's
BA23 number 1:
Front bays: a TK70
Backplane:
A B C D
1 empty
2 KA630 (Quad Width)
3 DATARAM 40918 rev D Assy 62404 Rev D (Quad Width)
4 Emulex QU3210401 (Double Width)
5 Emulex CU021042 Rev F <-- (Quad Width)
6 Emulex CU021042 Rev F <-- (Quad Width)
7 Emulex CC0910401 TQK70
8 empty empty
Looks like there are cab kits for the KA630, and I think there's a board
(and a surviving cable for!) the CC0910401.
(KA630 cab kit in A, B, C, E & F open, D has a blanking plate)
BA23 number 2:
Front bays: an RX50 (minus cable - a PC floppy cable shouyld do the job
right - so long as it's just straight through 34pin, no twist?)
Backplane:
A B C D
1 empty
2 M9405
3 empty
4 M9047 M9047
5 Emulex TU0210401 Rev C
6 M7555 M9047
7 empty M9404
8 empty
No cab kits. (But slots A, D, E and F have no blanking plate and are open)
Now to me, that doesn't look right. The BA23 is QQ/CD for the top 4 slots
and QQ/QQ serpentine for the bottom 4 - right?
I have an awful lot of half cables where they've just been cut right
through the middle - that gives me the feeling it might be tricky to get
this working.
So basically, any pointers on how this might have been configured (there
was one HDD and one BA23 in each rack, with a tape drive in the rack which
had BA23 number 2 in it. Along with any pointers on the best way to get
things up and running again. I didn't get any media for this (besides the
two HDDs).
It looks like one of the HDD's (both are SMD) has a 3 phase PSU - I'm not
going to be able to provide 3 phase (more info tomorrow when I can get to
it)
Oh, and what's J6 on the BA23 PSU for? it looked to be hooked up to a
cable in BA23 number 2's rack.
Oh - and I got a DECserver 90M (which I presume is a terminal server). No
PSU for it tho - anyone got any clue how to test that?
Any thoughts? :&)
Thanks,
-- Matt
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I am told that the computers on tonight's episode of TBAA at 8:00 P.M.
(CBS? - never could keep them straight) are Apple computers running
non-Windows Operating Systems. Since I am a PDP-11 fellow, I
need some help. Can anyone identify which hardware and possibly
software is being used?
I tend to assume that most programs on TV these days don't bother
to try and be accurate, so it would be helpful if those who know
would identify for us who don't!!!!
PLEASE - this question has nothing to do with FOOD or RELIGION
or GOD. And since it was suggested that the computers in question
might even be more than 10 years old, it may even be ON TOPIC.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
Apparently there are a lot of commands that aren't documented in the help,
and I don't have the command reference. I have the site preparation and
maintenance manual, but I can't find the command reference. I would
appreciate any help. Thanks.
Peace... Sridhar
