Venix86 Users Group News
Goeke at MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
Goeke at MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
Wed Nov 28 14:24:11 AEST 1984
Do add me to the list of those interested in a VENIX users
group. I've been running it on an 11/23 with a 20MB DSD drive for a
year and a half now, and have been very happy with it. Interestingly,
Venturcom seems to have forgotten that I exist, since absolutely ZERO
mail has arrived on new products, etc. since the day I got my floppies.
They share this distinction with DEC who also doesn't realize that past
customers with licenses are possible future customers.
BTW, I communicate to the rest of the world through this
Honeywell machine called MIT-Multics for a couple of reasons. Firstly,
I've never gotten 'uucp' to work, though I only spent a couple of hours
trying. Secondly, a true net link would mean I'd have to connect my
machine to a telephone. Now in real life, you should understand, my
machine works without passwords. . .if you can get to one of it's two
terminals, you get on -- the same with my desk and file cabinet. I'm
less happy with having to institute some security scheme just because I
want a net connection occasionaly. Anyway, I use Kermit to talk to
MIT-Multics and drop files; works like a champ, and it compiled with no
difficulties; I may have had to set 1ifdef, but that was it.
-- Bob Goeke
MIT Center for Space Research
Room 37-567
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-1910
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