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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinews!usenet
- From: robin@pencom.com (Robin D. Wilson)
- Subject: Re: rs6000 & nexts
- Message-ID: <1992Sep01.185847.10925@psisa.psi>
- Sender: usenet@psisa.psi (News system)
- Reply-To: robin@pencom.com
- Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated
- References: <1992Aug19.201528.3977@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 18:58:47 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- William Leeke writes
- >
- > I recently read a post (I think) in c.s.n.a. about
- > using Next's as a front end for rs6000 (rs is for rat
- > s---). Due to the row in that newsgroup posting there is a
- > problem. Any info on this would be greatly appreciated.
-
- I don't know why anybody would call it "rat s___". Ours screams. We have a
- 550 and a 350 here at this site, and we have several boxes at another site
- (ranging from 320s to 540s). All of our boxes work in varied levels of
- integration with the NeXTs. The ones up here (in our NY facility) are used
- as fileserver (350) and database server (550) running sybase. We brought up
- 3.0 and connected dbkit to the sybase on the 6000 without a hitch. The 6000
- works great as a fileserver (prior to getting it hooked up, it took on the
- order of 40 seconds to cache the Local* and Next* directories that are
- normally cahced at login - from a NeXT stations turbo acting as fileserver -
- once we hooked up the 6000, login time dropped from 45 seconds to about 15).
- We did have a few quirks to work out, 'automounter' was broken on the 3.2.0.0
- update for AIX, and there were several serial port problems prior to 3.2, but
- now; everything is running quite well for us.
-
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