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- From: cosc16to@menudo.uh.edu (Andy Hakim)
- Subject: Re: Pro/Venix Installation
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.145332.15296@menudo.uh.edu>
- Organization: University of Houston
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- References: <BARRY.92Aug11221332@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:53:32 GMT
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- barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort) writes:
- :
- : Venix does an fsck upon boot. This may be why your HD head is seeking?
-
- This 2 minute head banging bit is prior to any venix msgs (right
- after digital logo). I have had a chance to try another st-225 and
- the st-4038 and they also exhibit the same problem... so it is probably
- the software. The 30mg drive did not work btw (disk read msgs during install)
- maybe the heads/cylinders of the st-4038 are not the same as the RD-52.
-
- Everything is setup correctly for remote logins. In fact, remote 9600
- baud logins are so convenient, I even put away the monitor and keyboard
- in my closet. Venix is nice. P/OS is junk. Sure, it doesnt quite
- compare to SVR4 or BSD4, but its still totally cool. I'm impressed.
- Thanks!
-
- I wrote several small test programs and utils to give the c compiler a spin.
- Disk seeks really slow it down, but otherwise its acceptable. I am
- planning on getting the following compiled: rz, sz, uue/uudecode,
- compress/uncompress, unzip... + some other interesting tools.
- If someone has already done any of the above, kindly let me know.
-
- Also ran an old dhrystone benchmark program (avail from wuarchives.wustl.edu
- as /unix-c/benchmarks/dhrystone.c)
-
- Results:
-
- * MACHINE CPU O/S COMPILER NO REGS REGS
- * ----------- --------------------------------------------------------------
- * IBM PC/XT 8088-4.77Mhz VENIX/86 2.0 cc 297 324
- >> DEC PRO/350 F11 Venix/Pro 1.1 cc 308 322
- * IBM PC 8088-4.77Mhz MSDOS 2.0 CI-C86 2.20M 390 390
- * PDP-11/34 - UNIX V7M cc 387 438
- * Macintosh 68000-7.7Mhz - MegaMax C 2.0 661 709
- * ATT 3B2/300 WE32000-?Mhz UNIX 5.0.2 cc 735 806
- * IBM PC/AT 80286-6Mhz PCDOS 3.0 MS 3.0(large) 833 847
- * VAX 11/750 - Unix 4.2bsd cc 862 877
- >> Dell 333d 80386-33Mhz DOS 5.0 BC++ 3.1(tiny) --- 12500
- >> VAX risc... ultrix4.3bsd cc 75000
-
- (>> indicate new tests) a more complete list is in the source code.
-
- If someone has an ftp site we can use, I will teledisk some of the Pro stuff.
-
- -andy
-