Subject of newsgroup (was Re: Hello)

[diamond@tkovoa]

Mr. Kluft's article appears to have some news that might be relevant to
many readers of this newsgroup.  Therefore I am reposting it with
"Distribution: world".  (We received a copy because our news machine
thinks it's in the U.S.A.  Sorry to send a second copy to other readers
who receive "Distribution: usa".  I don't know how to exclude a country.)

In article <f9ad02blc6jL01 at amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> ikluft at tde.uts.amdahl.com (Ian Kluft) writes:
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>In article <25894 at boulder.Colorado.EDU> huntting at boulder.Colorado.EDU (Brad Huntting) writes:
>> [...] What I want to know is what is this newsgroup for?  And who created it?
>
>This newsgroup was created through the official voting process.  It was among
>several separately-voted issues that reorganized comp.unix.
>
>The newsgroup is intended for discussion of issues that are unique to large
>(i.e. mainframe or parallel) Unix installations.  Any of the following are
>good examples:  (importance of these will vary between organizations)
>- many typical CPU-bound tasks become I/O-bound on a large system
>- how do you manage a "disk farm" on a Unix system?
>- is your site having problems putting more than 1024 tty lines on one machine?
>- mainframe users expect access to tapes to be handled by a tape operator
>- mainframes make excellent file servers but some planning is helpful
>- how can you get the most out of both mainframes and workstations at one site?
>This is by no means a complete list of the large Unix systems issues.
>
>To this I'll add some of the things that we at Amdahl have done to address
>these issues
>- Amdahl Unix "UTS" has broken the 1024-port barrier and has sites running
>  in that configuration
>- competiton for tape devices is arbitrated by software and a tape operator
>- We use UTS systems as giant file servers
>- The same systems run just fine with hundreds of users logged in
>- UTS runs equally well in native mode or as a guest of VM
>- we support both 3270 and ASCII terminals
>  (but workstations seem to be preferred :-)
>
>-- 
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