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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
- Path: sparky!uunet!kailand!pwolfe
- From: pwolfe@kai.com (Patrick Wolfe)
- Subject: Why switch from Dynix/3 to Dynix/ptx?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.153923.12876@kai.com>
- Summary: looking for clues
- Keywords: sequent, dynix
- Organization: Kuck and Associates, Champaign IL
- Distribution: na
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:39:23 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- I'm looking for reasons other sites used to justify the huge amount of work to
- convert their Sequent system from bsd based Dynix 3 operating system to the
- svr3 based Dynix/ptx operating system. Bsd bigots, please, don't waste
- anyone's time with bsd vs. system v religious comments.
-
- We currently have both OS's on our S27, because we support our products on
- both, but we continue to run Dynix 3 as our production operating system. The
- system is used for documentation (tex, ditroff), software development, and as
- our general administrative system (email, news, etc). We have no third party
- purchased applications to worry about.
-
- None of the users have expressed any preference, or objection, to either OS.
- The only reasons I see are related to ongoing support, future enhancements, and
- operating system features. Sequent has said they won't be enhancing dynix 3
- anymore, so switching to ptx now, may mean quicker access to new features in
- the future.
-
- There are two features of ptx I'd really like to have, namely the nfs lock
- daemon and bidirectional modems. There is also one big feature of dynix 3,
- NIS, that sequent says they won't support in ptx. The (lack of) features
- discussion doesn't seem concern anyone here but me. The enormous amount of
- work converting the over 400 locally installed programs vs the benefit gained
- by the new features is the reason I haven't switched already.
-
- Can you think of any reason or major feature that might make me reconsider
- switching (or not) to ptx?
-
- Thanks for your input.
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- Patrick Wolfe (pwolfe@kai.com)
-