uucp on IX/370

[Tim Kehres]

In article <291 at hafro.UUCP> gunnar at hafro.UUCP (Gunnar Stefansson) writes:
>		The other reply was from a person who had worked close
>to an IX/370-system. The claim was that uucp running on even a big IBM
>would not work very well. This would not be the fault of the IBM or
>IX/370, but the Series/1 front end and its serial interfaces. The
>serial lines were claimed to be poorly designed so that the S/1 can
>only support one or two 1200 baud uucp connections (even then with
>lost characters).
>
>Note that these claims are not mine. Some response would be well
>appreciated, though.
>
>--Gunnar
>
>
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>Gunnar Stefansson                       {mcvax,seismo}!enea!hafro!gunnar 
>Marine Research Institute, Reykjavik    gunnar at hafro

About a year ago, I worked with IX/370 in trying to get uucp to work with
it.  Now it is very possible that the current state of IX/370 is in better
shape now, my experiences were very similiar to the above mentioned state.
The main difference was that the loss of characters through the Series/1
was so bad, that not even one uucp connection could be maintained.  It should
also be noted that the company that I was working with at the time (not CDC),
was not knowledgable (sp?) with IBM machines and it is possible that we could 
have had something not quite tuned correctly.  BTW, the total accumulated baud
rates for the Series/1 were well below the maximum rates given to us by IBM.
Hope this is of some help.

Tim Kehres
Control Data Corporaton / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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