ULTRIX 32 info needed
Mark Weiser
mark at tove.UUCP
Thu Oct 25 15:15:14 AEST 1984
> I have just received some information from my DEC
> salesman on ULTRIX-32.. I was singularly unimpressed.
> It seems that it is a basic 4.2BSD system with
> ALL of the non-DEC peripherals stripped out of it..
> (eg. UUCP only supports DF02 and DF03's,etc.)
> Now I understand why DEC would have done that,
> but it is moderately annoying if you have foreign peripherals.
>
This was not true of the two Ultrix systems DEC shipped us.
All of the original 4.2 drivers for all the non-DEC stuff were
in there. There were disclaimers that DEC did not support them,
but they were there.
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