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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: NN, PowerCache, IIsi, StyleWriter
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 10:11:29 GMT
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- hulse@el2.phy.nrc.ca (John Hulse) writes:
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- >I recently acquired a Quadra 700 for my lab and I am setting up A/UX 3.0
- >on it. All has gone pretty smoothly, and I am impressed with the system.
- >I have, however, a few questions that one of the readers of this group
- >will hopefully be able to answer for me.
-
- >1) I have set up set up nn 6.4.16, using the s-aux3.h header file which
- >I snatched from "jagubox" (thanks guys!). I seem to have but one
- >problem. I put a line to start up the daemon in /etc/rc:
-
- >/usr/local/lib/nn/nnmaster -l -r -C
-
- >as suggested in the docs, but no daemon ever gets forked. Nnmaster does
- >start up all right, and perform the check on the database, but then it
- >gets a hangup signal and just quits. Has anyone else seen this?
- >Running the above command line once loged on works just fine.
-
- I have run nnmaster from an rc file and from /etc/inittab and have seen
- it happen once-in-a-blue-moon.
-
- >2) I am in fact upgrading both machine and O/S - from a IIsi running
- >A/UX 2.0.1. I couldn't resist trying out 3.0 on the IIsi first. Well,
- >things are pretty slow on a IIsi, especially the Mac OS. Still, I would
- >like to buy a right to copy and run 3.0 on both machines. So I
- >thought a performance upgrade in the form of a DayStar Universal
- >PowerCache at 50 MHz would be a smart move. Does anyone have an opinion?
-
- Yes... a smart move it would be.
-
- >3) With regard to slowness - printing on a StyleWriter under A/UX really
- >brings a IIsi to its knees - even with driver 7.2.2. Can I expect this
- >to improve with such an upgrade?
-
- Total system performance will be boosted to impressive levels.
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- Jim Jagielski NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4
- jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, MD 20771
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