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In article <1992Oct5.201519.33@nsrvan.vanc.wa.us>, sysevm@nsrvan.vanc.wa.us writes:
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>Hello,
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>	I'm helping out our local college who has been given a VAX 8350. It
>has VMS on it now and they would like to run unix being a unix shop. Tektronix
>may donate a license so there is no problem there (or so we think).
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>	Here are my questions:
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>	The VMS os uses a special boot floppy. Do you need another for BSD?

Assuming that BSD supports the 8350 (2 CPU system), they'll need a boot
floppy.  All that series did.

>	Where can I get one?

If you get a normal distribution kit, it should include what's
needed to make one.  The ULTRIX installation procedure will
build one for you if you provide the blank floppy.

>        Who is using ULTRIX on an 8350 and what do you think.

I used one as a test system, so I wouldn't have to make my users
endure the potential pain of their main work system run field
test software.  The main system was a VAX 8800 and considerably
faster.  At various times I had 40 MB+ of memory and four CPUs
in the system.  The four CPU version wasn't a supported configuration
and never underwent any heavy load.  It was a reasonable system
though relatively slow.  It depends on what you want to do with it.

The VAX 8350 is a two CPU system, each CPU approximately the same
speed as a 11/780.  It uses the VAXBI as the system and I/O bus.
From what I last recall the largest memory board available was
16 MB and the smallest 2.  The small version of the system had
two six slot VAXBIs.  The larger version had four VAXBIs.  In
either case it's limited to 16 VAXBI options, eight of which
can be supported memory.  The KDB50 is a reasonable disk controller
if you don't need lots of disks.  If you do need lots of disks
then you need a CI adapter (CIBCA-BA is the one to prefer) and
an HSC based disk farm.  The VAXBI tape controller is for the
TU81+; adequte if you can keep it streaming, lousy if you can't.
At various there were as many as three Ethernet adapters
available.  I prefer the DEBNI myself.


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>	Any and all advise is welcome...
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>Thanks, Ethan
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Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com