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James S. Vera (vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU) writes:

> I believe our Sequent will be turning 10 this year.  She's an oldie.
> In fact we upgraded from the National CPUs (32016s?).  I wouldn't
> think it matters but our SCSI drive has its own power supply.

Quite an oldie.  Ours is not quite seven years.  A note on the
back says "25 OCT 85", serial no 8559, and we still have the
ns32032 CPUs.

>> That's why I am suprised that you were able to do it.  But what do I
>> know, I'm still running Dynix V3.0.17.

> %cat /etc/motd|head -1
> DYNIX(R) V3.0.17.9 NFS  #3 (root): Thu Mar 26 18:25:43 PST 1992

What do you mean *still* running 3.0.17?
$ cat /sys/dynix/conf/vers.c
char version[] = "DYNIX (TM) V2.1.1  #1 (pen): Sat May 19 19:45:37 PDT 1990\n";

Our hardware can't run anything newer.  And, no, our computer
club can't afford a SCED card from Sequent that would enable us
to upgrade to Dynix 3.  Well, anyway, with a little luck we will
have a SCED card in a month or two that someone might donate to
us.  (And perhaps an entire Balance 8000 attached to it :-)


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