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- From: chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi)
- Subject: Re: v7, Domain OS 10.4
- Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
- Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 20:32:45 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov07.203245.9837@edsi.plexus.COM>
- References: <BxB0wE.5Hn@netnews.jhuapl.edu> <1992Nov06.205208.6520@news.mentorg.com>
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- gcagle@dracula.mentorg.com (Greg Cagle) writes:
-
- :)The current plan is to support V7 on SR10.4 in Q193. Preliminary testing
- :)has been largely successful.
-
- [ This article is not meant to be a "Mentor Bashing", just an ]
- [ expression of my opinion towards the transition process from v7.0 ]
- [ to v8.0 where the operation system is involved on Domain/OS machines.]
-
- This has been a major gripe at our site and we have let several people
- at MGC (sales and support) know about it.
-
- On the one hand you are asking everyone to transition, thus we bring up
- 8.1 and find that it has some "shortcomings". Our site may be a bit
- unique in that we use nearly all Mentor tools (except IC.) There is no
- official LMS (Library Management System), the analog tools were on a
- supplemental release, and we still don't have things like GenRad
- netlisters. An incomplete release once again.
-
- Now we find out that things like LMS will be available in 8.2, however
- to transition to 8.2 (due out Nov-Dec time frame from what I hear) it is
- required that the node be running 10.4.
-
- Thus the catch! Once you've made the leap to 8.2/10.4 you cannot run
- 7.0 until it is released for 10.4. I'm sorry, but this is supposed to
- be a "transition" and not a "quantum leap." We'll still need to run our
- 7.0 tools until we have successfully installed 8.2, tested the
- robustness of the tools, put a pilot project through, and given two
- thumbs up.
-
- We are a site of approximately 35 nodes. We cannot afford to cut out
- one board station, one idea station, etc. and dedicate them to the task
- of getting 8.2 up and running and then wait for 7.0 to come out before
- we can use them again on existing designs.
-
- As the System Administrator it is my task to make sure that the
- Engineers can carry out their work as seemlessly as possible. This
- latest announcement about 10.4 is going to make my next few months a
- living nightmare with respect to the Engineers and their work.
-
- Once again we are made to wait...
- --
- Chuck Tomasi | "A munk a clone and a Ferengi
- chuck@edsi.plexus.COM | decide to go bowling together..."
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