6000 pricing
Miles O'Neal
meo at stiatl.UUCP
Fri Feb 23 09:08:28 AEST 1990
(Marc J. Stephenson) answers my questions:
Thank you! This "personal service" you are providing has done more
to get my attention that anything IBM has officially said, or anyone
else in this group has said.
I must admit I'm still skeptical, but not as much as before.
|(Miles O'Neal) writes:
| My source, the RISC System/6000 Quick Pricer (comes with a
| disclaimer that information was current as of 2/90 but subject
| to change without notice), is unclear about the ultimate packaging
| of the software. AIX 3.0 has Ethernet and Token Ring Support, TCP/IP,
| Mail, National Language Support, and Softcopy documentation listed
| among "Additional Highlights". C compiler and a "basic set of
| application development tools," and NFS and NCS support are mentioned
| previous to that heading.
|
| rcp, rsh, NFS, YP, Sendmail, C, dbx, sccs, yacc, lex, curses, awk, uucp,
| hypertext, scsi tape drivers, system admin stuff, troff? All are there.
| I don't know about SMTP-based mail, and I'm no expert on SCSI, so I won't
| speculate about that.
So the QP implies it all comes with the base OS? No extra charge?
|>What about net monitoring stuff (such as traffic, netstat, etc)?
|>What about something like sar (SV) or vmstat (4.x)?
| sar and netstat are there. I don't see traffic or vmstat on my system.
Traffic appears to be a Sunism. It graphs ether traffic over time
to help monitor/debug a LAN. Vmstat isn't really necessary with sar
available.
| All of what I mentioned above is part of AIX Version 3 for
| RISC System/6000. Several pieces are separately installable,
| presumably because some people don't need some of the parts.
| Separate software offerings include various Graphics, Language
| (FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal, & Ada), Communications (SNA, Host Connect,
| PC Simulator, other), and Data Base (INGRES and SQL stuff).
If this is correct (and doesn't get hit by "subject to change" too soon 8^)
then one of my arguments definately goes away!
-Miles
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