Unix Technical Digest V3 #5

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Unix Technical Digest       Sat, 17 May 86       Volume  3 : Issue   5

Today's Topics:
         Towards a user-friendly, interactive, user interface
                    UNIX on 8200/8300/8800 - when?
        Wanted: Pointers to Unix hosted on IBM 4381 (like 370)
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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 86 22:44:41 est
From: ihnp4!seismo!hadron!jsdy (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Subject: Towards a user-friendly, interactive, user interface

>        One of the few things I miss about TOPS-20 is the interactive command
>line parsing (MM is the other).  ...
>	How to implement this on Unix?

Write The Office of the Assistant to the Director, Undergraduate
Science Centre, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138.  The Harvard
shell (hsh) did command completion for you, based on a table of known
commands.  It may still be available.  (In > 10 years, it has surely
mutated quite a bit, though.)

If MM was the mail program, check out the Rand Corporation's MS or MH
systems.

>I think ksh already does file name completion,

sorry, no.

By the way, Forrest Howard was trying to push a help/options
convention when he was at H.U. that may or may not have had
to do with the hsh -- my memory is imperfect.
	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy at seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}

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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 86 22:51:34 est
From: ihnp4!seismo!hadron!jsdy (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Subject: UNIX on 8200/8300/8800 - when?

>A formal Digital publication stated: "Digital is commited to offering
>ULTRIX on all new VAX processors".  How soon is it expected to be?
>How soon is Berkeley going to have 4.X bsd on the 8X00?

Per the DEC announcement, Ultrix is available now on the 8200, and
its release on the multi-processors depends on when they and AT&T
can agree on how to license >1 processor.  (This is per the person
who made the announcement.)
	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy at seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}

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Date: 7 May 1986 11:20-EST
From: seismo!manheime (Ken Manheimer)
Subject: Wanted: Pointers to Unix hosted on IBM 4381 (like 370)

A little more than three weeks ago i posted a query to net.unix and
net.wanted for pointers to (and relative merits of) Unix hosted on IBM
4381 machines.  Unfortunately, during two of the intervening three
weeks our connection to usenet was entirely down (due to a head crash
on the spooling disk and extenuating events), so i have missed any
responses that might have been sent to me.  In fact, i have not
received any responses.  Our net contact has now stabilized.  If you
did send (or post) any response, i'd appreciate it very much if you
would send it once again to me.

I mentioned in that message that the IBM is running VM/SP, with CMS
and a retinue of what are apparently standard IBM VM products (i'm
only peripherally associated with the IBM), and that it's not clear
what constraints we would have on configuring Unix on the machine.

Incidentally, i concurrently posted a similar request for C hosted
on the IBM, and the only response i've gotten so far was from a
coworker here at this lab, who suggested looking into the SAS
lattice C port.  I've found an SAS advertisement in _The C Journal_,
vol 1, # 4, Winter 1986, and am just in the process of contacting
the company.
Thanks for your attention...,

Ken Manheimer	Integrated Systems Group, Factory Automation Systems Division
		National Bureau of Standards
UUCP:  ...!seismo!nbs-amrf!manheime (`nbs-amrf.UUCP.arpa!manheime' *may* work)
BELL: (301)921-2171
USmail: National Bureau of Standards; Metrology A127; Gaithersburg, MD  20899

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