Asri-unix.353 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!mhtsa!ihnss!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!gwyn@UTEXAS-11 Mon Dec 28 17:04:35 1981 Re: learning to unix UNIX System III also runs on PDP-11/44 & /45. I just got a description from Western Electric; I note that the ONLY disk supported for VAX is the RP06. I hope the DEC Unix Engineering Group and/or U.Cal.Berkeley will "support" the newer and more cost-effective disks. Observe that this UNIX system is newer than anything else available, with the exception of parts of 4.1bsd. Because it runs on all machines of interest to Geotronics, from 11/23 through 11/780, we will almost certainly be converting to it. This also is the direction that the "unregulated subsidiary" which will eventually be selling and supporting UNIX is going... ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.