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In article <19072@joyce.istc.sri.com>, brunner@joyce (Thomas Eric Brunner) writes:
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>I'd like to know what other users of the rt as a 4.3 platform have collected
>in the way of unfixed bugs or undesirable features, as well as their experience
>with IBM's support for the current release.
>
>I was asked by several people at the course I taught with Ron Natalie last
>week in Boston (Network Operation and Security) where or how they could get
>support for the product, and neither Ron nor I had any useful answers for
>them, or could point out to them a list of "known" problems or "known" fixes.
>I might know myself if I'd rt's here but my shop is mostly sun (100+) and
>hp boxes, my sole rt is a six month loaner to a client site in Leavenworth
>Kansas, and the local (Leavenworth) support for the product is non-existant.
>

The list of `known' bugs is much to extensive to include here.  There
is a very buggy C compiler (generates bad code, seg faults while
compiling).  The file system quotas do not work out of the box, we
spent two days fixing the code.  Also, the version of NFS that comes
with AOS 4.3 is what was running on SunOS 3.2 with all of the bugs
that version had still in place.

The alleged support comes out of a group at USC called the Advanced
Computing Support Ceneter (1-800-426-2272).  I say alleged because we
have had an ongoing problem with AOS 4.3 on the RT 6152 since last
November.  It took us until the end of December to convince IBM that
there actually was a problem.  We were getting "The problem can not be
recreated here so you must be imagining things" as an answer from the
ACSC.  IBM's support of AOS 4.3 is much less than enthusiastic.  There
are appearently no plans for any future releases of AOS beyond the
December 1988 release.  It seems that IBM is too busy scrambling
around trying to rescue AIX from death to spend a lot of time on
supporting AOS.

Another bone of contention is that it would appear that IBM has no
intentions of ever releasing X11 R3 under AOS 4.3.  The release
avaible from MIT has massive bugs that make it unusable on the RT and
IBM does not distribute all of the source code for the server.  Of
course the bugs are in the binary only pieces of the server.

>Since I'm posting off of a host I don't usually use, my return address may
>be munged. I can be reached at:
>
>	Internet: brunner@spam.istc.sri.com
>
>I follow this list (comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt), so posting back to the list is
>fine ... provided the AIX people don't get tired of seeing "academic"
>traffic or "bsd-isms". I'll summarize and post in a weeks time anything I
>think is generally useful.

Gee, I had always assumed that the AIX folk were intruding on an
AOS/BSD news group. :-)

>
>Cheers!
>Eric
>-- 
>Thomas Eric Brunner
>(if UK, reverse domains).
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