4.2 on 8600 (repeat)

Tim Radzykewycz radzy at calma.UUCP
Mon Dec 9 03:16:50 AEST 1985


In article <1114 at enea.UUCP> ber at enea.UUCP (Bjorn Eriksen) writes:
>In article <84 at calma.UUCP> radzy at calma.UUCP (Tim Radzykewycz) writes:
>>From a programmer's point-of-view, however, it is almost identical.
>>Binary images from a vanilla 4.2 system will work on an Ultrix
>>system. 

>But if we look at the other end, that is Micro-Vax II, you will also
>miss all of /usr/man and /usr/games.

Yes, that's one of the things in the uVAX-II Ultrix that I miss most.
Normally, I remote login to some other system, and use the man
pages from it.  sigh

>but to get rid of the serious security bugs in sendmail, still in
>Ultrix 1.1, you can't move a binary image of sendmail from, say a 750
>or 780 to a Micro-Vax.

I don't know about Ultrix 1.1.  I'm running 1.2.  Yes, you can
move a binary imagen of sendmail from a 750 running vanilla
4.2 to the uVAX-II with Ultrix 1.2.
-- 
Tim (radzy) Radzykewycz, The Incredible Radical Cabbage
	calma!radzy at ucbvax.ARPA
	{ucbvax,sun,csd-gould}!calma!radzy



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