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In article <1991May6.200858.11411@news.nd.edu> suhardjo@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu writes:
>I'm thinking of replacing the AIX with BSD on my RTs.  How much will it
>cost?
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>| Johanes Suhardjo                 |               Civil Engineering         |
>| suhardjo@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu         |            University of Notre Dame     |
>| johanes@newton.ce.nd.edu         |      P.O. Box 825, Notre Dame, IN 46556 | 
> ____________________________________________________________________________

Johanes, the IBM/4.3 product was withdrawn in December of last year, so in
practical terms the cost is infinite -- IBM will not sell it to you under
any circumstances. It may be the case that Notre Dame already has one or
more rt's running IBM/4.3 (aka "ACIS", "AOS", or perhaps "Berkeley Unix"),
according to my copy of the customer list, Notre Dame is a University
Customer of IBM 4.3, and a Dr. Chong Lee is listed as the point of contact
at Notre Dame. I suggest that you speak with Dr. Lee or his/her replacement
and locate your September and/or December 1988 distribution tapes, or the
Notre Dame network loader host, and do an installation from either of those
two sources.

Note that you _must_ have a binary-only C compiler (Metaware), I think that
the release level at that time was 2.1n (use cc -v, or ar t on an available
.c or .a files, resp.), and the last version of the compiler I released
prior to the end of support for the products (4.3 as well as all of the
3rd party licensed compilers) was 2.1y.

If you get this far (install the September release or the December upgrade),
you may wish to install some or all of the patches I've posted to this news
group since May 1989 when I started supporting the product. These are all
available with the exception of the 3rd party compilers via anonymous FTP
from bikini.cis.ufl.edu (aka "ufl.edu").

There are quite a few cooperating sites running 4.3bsd on the RT in the
US and abroad. In Indiana are is the Bloomington and Indianapolis campus
of the State University system, and Purdue. Let me know if you decide to
take the trouble to replace AIX 2.2.1 with IBM/4.3, I'll be happy to help
via email and/or phone.


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