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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!liuida!isy!lysator.liu.se!bellman
- From: bellman@lysator.liu.se (Thomas Bellman)
- Subject: Re: scsi this...
- Message-ID: <1508@lysator.liu.se>
- Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News)
- Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Club, Linkoping University, Sweden
- References: <1992Aug10.1151.824@dosgate> <vera.713574482@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:02:28 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- James S. Vera (vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU) writes:
-
- > I believe our Sequent will be turning 10 this year. She's an oldie.
- > In fact we upgraded from the National CPUs (32016s?). I wouldn't
- > think it matters but our SCSI drive has its own power supply.
-
- Quite an oldie. Ours is not quite seven years. A note on the
- back says "25 OCT 85", serial no 8559, and we still have the
- ns32032 CPUs.
-
- >> That's why I am suprised that you were able to do it. But what do I
- >> know, I'm still running Dynix V3.0.17.
-
- > %cat /etc/motd|head -1
- > DYNIX(R) V3.0.17.9 NFS #3 (root): Thu Mar 26 18:25:43 PST 1992
-
- What do you mean *still* running 3.0.17?
- $ cat /sys/dynix/conf/vers.c
- char version[] = "DYNIX (TM) V2.1.1 #1 (pen): Sat May 19 19:45:37 PDT 1990\n";
-
- Our hardware can't run anything newer. And, no, our computer
- club can't afford a SCED card from Sequent that would enable us
- to upgrade to Dynix 3. Well, anyway, with a little luck we will
- have a SCED card in a month or two that someone might donate to
- us. (And perhaps an entire Balance 8000 attached to it :-)
-
-
- --
- Thomas Bellman, Lysator Academic Computer Club, Linkoping University
- "We don't understand the software, and ! Sweden ; +46-13 177780
- sometimes we don't understand the hardware, ! Bellman@Lysator.LiU.Se
- but we can *see* the blinking lights!" ! Make Love - Nicht Wahr
-