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Need Help With Sun Ethernet Problems

how...@unc.uucp (William Howell) — Sun, 17 Aug 1986 06:18:46 UT

We have a large number of Sun workstations configured into a
network of 7 file servers and approximately 50 diskless client
workstations. Since installing the machines we have experienced
a collection of what appears to be ethernet related problems or
at least that is what the error messages on the Suns lead you to

4.2BSD on HP workstation

a...@ucla-cs.arpa (Arthur Goldberg) — Thu, 29 May 1986 18:15:26 UT

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I'm at UCLA and we would like to run 4.3 bsd on our hp 9000
workstations. Then we could attach them to the ethernet and use the
RFS to get network file transparency with our other 4.3 machines, I
believe.
I posted a message here a while ago asking whether anyone had ported
4.3 and nobody answered yes. If someone has (and would be so kind

Announcing X window system mailing lists.

j...@athena.mit.edu (Jim Gettys) — Wed, 21 May 1986 02:31:31 UT

I have now had substantial numbers of requests for a mailing list on X
window system related issues. I had hoped that people receiving X
distributions from MIT would be kind enough to give their electronic
mail addresses on the order form, but many did not, and the distribution
of X on the 4.3BSD tape will result in many more distributions of X over

Bad Memory in Suns - Anyone Know?

j...@portal.uucp (John Little) — Mon, 19 May 1986 10:01:39 UT

Your information is very old. SUN got some bad chips from
Micron in Idaho (now refered to as mutant spudboy chips).
Apparently there is a suit still active, but I haven't heard
anything in about a year. These chips were used in some
of the SUN 2's.
Micron, alleged manufacturer of the allegedly defective chips,

Want Benchmarking info for SUN2s and SUN3s

hartw...@lll-lcc.uucp (David M. Hartwell) — Wed, 14 May 1986 17:49:34 UT

I am after information about the speed of Sun2s and Sun3s.
I am looking for information about
* Comparison of Sun2s to Sun3s
* Math speed (floating and integer)
* Ethernet load/usage
* User responsiveness (Has anyone done a study of how many SUNs a
file server can have on it before the NFS demands overwhelm it,

Sun panel subwindow input problem. Help?

da...@comp.lancs.ac.uk (David Coffield) — Tue, 13 May 1986 10:07:13 UT

Can anyone suggest how to solve the following input problem on a Sun?
I have a panel subwindow in which I have one panel item of type
PANEL_TEXT. I want to display the panel item, get user input,
change the prompt, get user input etc
I've thought up a crummy solution using a list of prompts and their

Viewpoint is similar to, but different from, Star

pet...@utcsri.uucp (Peter Rowley) — Fri, 09 May 1986 14:03:42 UT

One recent message implied that Xerox Viewpoint is the 1981 Star product
simply renamed. Not true. As delivered, Viewpoint provides generally the same
functionality, but it is noticeably faster, a good deal of the interface
has been changed (e.g. overlapping windows in arbitrary positions are
allowed now), and quite importantly, it has been unbundled. Star was a

Sun blues.

dnel...@joevax.uucp (Dorothy Nelson) — Mon, 05 May 1986 20:35:42 UT

This may have been brought up before, but if it has, PLEEZ refer me to the
article the solution is in.
Hokay. I have a Sun Version 2.0 workstation and this is what I want a tool to
do:
1. Emulate a terminal when open.
2. When closed, have an icon that alters. (i.e. blinks)
So far, I can emulate the terminal (basically sun's "Shelltool") *alone*,

Workstations (Re: <15@uw-atm.UUCP>)

ha...@uw-atm.uucp (harry) — Sun, 04 May 1986 18:04:33 UT

This article was originally sent just to net.works on May 1. Since I
do not receive net.works, please E-mail responses to me. If
they are interesting enough, I will post them to Usenet.
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I work for an Atmospheric Sciences Department. We are looking at
different workstations for manipulation and display of graphical

(relatively) cheap Unix boxes summary

l...@cyb-eng.uucp (Bill Lee) — Fri, 02 May 1986 22:50:36 UT

Since I didn't see the original posting, I don't know if these Unix
boxes fit the criteria. However, most of the boxes mentioned don't fit
into my idea of cheap. If you are looking for a cheap Unix box for
personal use, here are a few possibilities.
$3250 - Cyb Systems Workmate I
8MHz M68000, 1MB memory (512K no wait state, 512K Multibus mem),

Trying to locate surveys of CAD/CAM workstations.

j...@cdx39.uucp (jc) — Fri, 02 May 1986 15:36:32 UT

A fellow I work with has asked if I knew about any surveys
(even better: benchmarks) of CAD/CAM workstations. Quite
naturally, I thought of all you out there in Usenet-land.
Has anything appropriate been posted to this or any other
newsgroup? Can you point me at someone who can help?
He's not a usenet user (yet), and this site is so new that

Graphical Workstations

r...@sickkids.uucp (Russell Sutherland) — Fri, 02 May 1986 12:12:27 UT

I am planning on purchasing a UNIX based graphical
workstation for performing real time simulation
of wire frame and solid models. I have seen the
IRIS 3030 but only a video tape of the Apollo DN580.
Does anyone have any information on how the performance
of these two machines compare? Are there any other systems

CPU overhead of X on a VAXstation II?

j...@mit-eddie.mit.edu (Jim Gettys) — Thu, 01 May 1986 00:01:13 UT

The VS-2 and VS-2/RC (VAXstation II) uses the QVSS display, which is
memory on the Q-Bus. There is NO hardware assist. When scrolling or
painting text, therefore, the CPU is compute bound manipulating display
memory. X is a user level process, and so will be timeshared like any
other process. This means that in a timeshared environment, the window

xeroX slime ad warning (really Meta 4)

mcjo...@magic.uucp (mcjones) — Tue, 29 Apr 1986 17:53:47 UT

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I'm afraid Bob Lewis is "mixing his metaphors":
Just to put things in perspective, one of the big plusses of
the Sigma-7 was its programmable microcode, and the gang at
UCSD was really looking forward to getting a machine which
could emulate an IBM 1130! The name of the emulating OS was

(relatively) cheap Unix boxes summary

la...@geowhiz.uucp (Larry McVoy) — Tue, 29 Apr 1986 04:25:04 UT

What follows are the response given to my query regarding inexpensive Unix
boxen. I've followed up on some of these. My personal decision is to wait
until I can afford a 68020 w/ 4 serials, 2 ||'s, ethernet, 4meg, color graph,
200meg disk & 1/2 tape. However, I wish to be self sufficient. If you want