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I have a few questions for the V user community, particularly those at
Stanford.

1.  Has anybody out there written a SCSI driver yet?

	We've been wanting to for quite some time, but manpower
	limitations and difficulty getting SUN Unix source to port
	from have kept us from ever getting it done.  It'd sure be
	nice to have access to all those big, cheap disks and
	tape drives.

2.  Has anybody written rtar/dump for dumping from dedicated V fileservers
to tape backup (which could be hanging off a Unix box or whatever, if rtar
is available)?

	It "should be" fairly easy, but again, manpower limitations
	are getting in our way.  Having to backup everything to a
	<slow as hell> Vax in order to get it onto tape is clearly
	non-optimal.

3.  Is anybody working on porting V to the SPARCstations and similar ilk?

	That'd be a reasonably big chore, even if you had access to SUN
	Unix source for the Sparcs, but will have to be done if V is
	going to outlive the demise of the SUN-3 and uVax lines.


Thanks,

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John Carter     (retrac@rice.edu -or- {any-Internet-node}!rice!retrac)
Rice University, Dept of Computer Science, Houston, TX			

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