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In article <ZOO.91Mar11005948@grumpy.spa.umn.edu>, zoo@aps1.spa.umn.edu (david d [zoo] zuhn) writes:
|> >>>>> On 10 Mar 91 13:22:06 GMT, david@torsqnt.UUCP (David Haynes) said:
|> 
|> David> 1. You can get Mach for the Sequent systems now and have been able to
|> David>    get it for at least 3 years that I know of. 
|> David> 2. I have never been asked by a university for it.

That's strange, because I represent the University (the Australian National University)
and I have asked for Mach on the Sequent. What more, I have gone through all the
trouble and expense of getting AT&T UNIX V R4 license that was required by
the Sequent, and in spite of numerous e-mail messages I still didn't get
the tapes.

In the meantime, I've been told by David Golub from Carnegie Mellon, that
they actually have Mach 3.0 single-server BSD 4.3 system running on
their Sequent. Sequent itself provides only Mach 2.5 with DYNIX instead
of BSD 4.3 put on top of it. Their, i.e., Carnegie's version "doesn't fit Sequent's
list of bugs, but then many of those listed involve Dynix/Mach
compatibility, which CMU is not interested in." (D.G.)

Since our S27 is configured mostly as a research machine, and we don't have any 
DYNIX based commercial software installed, a system such as that from Carnegie 
Mellon would suit me just fine.

I've written to D.G. asking for more details and a possibility of getting
the installation from them (19th Feb), but I didn't get any information
back yet.

I am not exactly paranoid, but it smacks of a conspiracy... Am I ever going
to see Mach on my S27, I wonder? (In the meantime it's been turned into
a GNU machine - at least that I can get via ftp).
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