HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tihor@acf3.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: question about files and C in VMS
Date: 20 Aug 92 22:00:00 GMT
Organization: New York University

checking the manual and looking at the comments implies taht unless you file 
is STREAMLF you are going to have problems fseek and ftell.   Why not use the 
new standard forms: fgetpos and fsetpos?
From: jbennett@dstos3.dsto.gov.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: WANTED old PDP-11?
Date: 17 Aug 92 17:48:47 GMT
Organization: Defence Science and Technology Organisation

In article <1992Aug13.160144.20927@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, aj681@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Carlin Wiegner) writes:
> 
> email. BTW are all the PDPs 3 phase power supplied?

None of the 11's I worked on (latest model was an 11/44) had 3 phase power as 
such.  We did split racks among phases to balance the load though.  (DEC hated 
us doing it, said it couldn't/shouldn't be done)

Regards,

John Bennett                                E-mail: jbennett@dstos3.dsto.gov.au
Head, Networks Group                        Phone : +61 8 259 5292
Corporate Information Systems               FAX   : +61 8 259 5537
DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION Postal: Bld 73 Labs Area
AUSTRALIA                                           PO Box 1500 Salisbury 
            "Lord Warden of the Sync Ports"         South Australia  5108
                (DSTO Network Manager)              AUSTRALIA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix
From: woody@gergu2.tamu.edu (Woody Lee)
Subject: dxbook - DECwindows book reader.
Keywords: DEC, ULTRIX, DECWINDOWS
Reply-To: woody@gergu2.tamu.edu
Organization: Texas A&M University -- GERG
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:30:31 GMT


We have the DEC on line documentation on cd rom which is in the dxbook
bookreader format.  I was wondering if there is a way to extract some
portions of the documentation to a file or printer.

Thanks.

--

Woody Lee    -=-=-   woody@gergu2.tamu.edu   -=-=-   (409) 862-2321 
GERG - Latex/A Data Office   |"That's the whole problem with science.
Texas A&M University	     | You've got a bunch of empiricists trying 
Department of Oceanography   | to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
College Station, TX 77845    |                - Calvin (& Hobbes)

 
	

			
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From: rocker@csa.bu.edu (The Long Haired One)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,misc.forsale.computers,vmsnet.pdp-11,bu.forsale,mit.bboard,ne.forsale
Subject: Update: DEC hardware forsale
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:20:25 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.dec
Distribution: comp,misc,vmsnet,bu,mit,ne
Organization: Boston University


Here's whats left...

All items buyer pays shipping. 

($40) DEC BA-11 NE (Extension Backplane)
      originally from a PDP-11/03-L which was upgraded to a PDP-11/23
      Last known condition was working, I have no way to verify it at
      present, so its being sold as unknown condition.

($20) RX-50 AA, 5 1/4" dual diskette drive
            used as the c(3rd) & d(4th) drives on a Rainbow.
            passed all diagnostic test last time it was fired up.

($25) DEC LA120-BA (DECwriter III)
          Condition: Non-working, should be good for parts

($25) DEC LA120 wire-rack PaperBin Attachment

email to rocker@bucsf.bu.edu

-Rocker
From: hfwpa@usho43.hou281.chevron.com (F.W.Patrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: DEC Fortran rtl error
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:13:52 GMT
Organization: Chevron


We have been attempting a to link Fortran code compiled with 
DEC Fortran for RISC ULTRIX 3.1 with some Fortran libraries
obtained from another shop. After a successful link the 
following msg comes out ot the Fortran run time library:

forrtl: severe: internal consistency check failure

which the end of it. Does anyone know what this msg means?
-- 
Fred Patrick, Information Technology,  
Chevron Petroleum Technology Co., 
P.O. Box 42832,                     e-mail: hfwpa@hou281.chevron.com                               
Houston, Texas 77242-2832           phone:  (713) 596-2647
From: grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (Johannes Grosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Internet support via DSIN
Date: 17 Aug 92 13:43:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.19757
Organization: North Dakota State University

Does anyone remember the big announcement a couple of months ago
about DEC making DSIN available via the internet? Well, I filled
out an application within a week of that announcement and have
yet to hear anything from DEC about it. Has anyone gotten internet
access to DSIN?

-- 
Johannes Grosen
ISC Group System Administrator
401E Minard Hall
North Dakota State University
(701) 237-8409
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: Re: Turbochannel Adapter for 4000-60?
Organization: CS
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:45:26 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.151407.1@wharfin.mit.edu> lang@wharfin.mit.edu writes:
>Hello,
>
>Has anyone in net.land actually installed a DWCTX Turbochannel adapter in a
>VAXStation 4000-60? I have had one on order for about 4 months, and was told
>recently (in the last day or so) that the DWCTX is on engineering hold, thus I
>have not recieved on yet. Could someone please enlighted me and or the rest of
>the net as to the status of the DWCTX? I have a PMAZ SCSI controller and a
>stack of CD-ROM drives that I would really like to get on-line.

Same here...

I suspect what happened is DEC picked a part number out of the air, and then
decided to see how many people wanted it before they actually put
engineering effort into designing the damn thing.

I bought a 4000/60 because my rep assured me that I could put the 2 scsi
interfaces in.  I now have a nice 4000/60 sitting here waiting to do the
job it was originally designed for, that I've paid for.

Pisses me off.  On the other hand, my HP9000/730's are doing the job the
VAX was supposed to do very nicely...  You can bet where my money's going
next time.
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu
From: russell@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Info on Storage Subsystems for Vax Clusters
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:06:07 +1000
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

                Vax Cluster Storage Solutions
                =============================

        I am writing to seek information about the new DEC STORME system
        and DEC RAID directions.  We have at Monash University many Vax
        systems 64xx, 65xx and are soon to take delivery of a 66xx system.

                As far as disk subsystems goes we have made use of the
        HSC40/50/70 technology with RA70/71/72/81/82/90/92, Emulex, MTI,
        and NEC SDI drives. We have a DEC MPP with a parallel disk array
        together with numerous Vaxstations and Decstations.

                With our large system workload increasing we are looking
        down the track to try and find what new storage solutions are likely
        to be available in the near future. The HSC90s with Cache may not
        be the only way to go. We are also looking at ESE50 solid state
        disks as a possible solution.

                I am looking out for equipment that will replace the HSCs
        or co-exist with them on the CI Bus, that is, connected to the Star
        coupler directly be faster in terms of I/O requests /sec and have
        some measure of redundancy maybe a RAID solution.

                The best information I have at present is that MTI has a
        system called Failsafe and another called the Stingray, also CMD
        technology is working on a RAID 5 system that will interface to
        the CI bus.
                Have these Companies made agreements with DEC to interface
        on to the CI bus, or would we be likely to see some legal issues
        comming to the surface as they have in the past ?

                Are there any other manufacturers out there that are working
        in this area ? Is DEC itself looking at RAID solutions ?  Just how
        does a parallel disk array appear to VMS ? Is it just one big logical
        drive or can it be made to appear as several smaller logical drives?

                What happens in the Backup area?  If chunks are distributed
        across multiple spindles is backup in the traditional sense meaningful?

                If more than one element in the array fails and the RAID
        system is not able to reconstruct the data what is the recovery time?

                The purpose of this posting is an information gathering
        exercise and should not be considered as the direction the University
        Computer Centre is planning to move towards. I would appreciate
        hearing from any site or anyone with experience with the products
        mentioned above or any answers to the questions posed.

                                Thanks in anticipation,
                                        Russell Keil
                                         Vax Engineering.

                        email:-     Russell.Keil@cc.monash.edu.au
From: aar_osman@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: LAT card for Laserjet III
Date: 15 Aug 92 19:24:33 GMT



Hi,
	Is anybody aware of a network card that would plug into an
HP LaserjetIII I/O slot that supports LAT or any DEC printing protocol?
	There are plenty out there that supports Novell, Appletalk, and
TCP/IP, but none that I know that supports LAT.
	Thanks in advance.
 
/Osman

P.S. I don't check the newserver too often; I will appreciate responses
directly to me.
From: jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: general questions about alpha workstations
Date: 20 Aug 92 12:16:43 GMT
Reply-To: jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


|>
|>Can someone give me a short (<100 lines) discription of the DEC alpha
|>workstations, including when they will be out, what their current level
|>of performance is, operating systems (VMS vs OS1), compatibility with 
|>previous VAX and DECstation hardware, and if possible, whether or not
|>these beasts should be able to run a previously compiled (under VMS)
|>program and, if so, what difference in speed should be seen?

Doug, some of what you ask is not yet public knowledge given that we have not
yet released these systems.  However, I can tell you some of the things that
we have said and shown in public

There are currently two alpha workstations, desktop and deskside.  These systems
have both been shown at Siggraph and will be shown at Unix Expo in September.

All alpha machines will run both VMS and OSF/1 and will have some levels of 
compatibility with prior generations.  However, this is not binary compatiblity
and something must be "done" in order to acheive this compatibility.  On both
DEC OSF/1 and VMS, we will provide "binary translators" that take executable
images from  say MIPS/ULTRIX and translate them into executables for Alpha/OSF
There is a performance loss, mainly from  not taking advantage of the alpha
architecture, however our stated goals is that we will be able to run translated
code on an alpha machine faster than that of the most recently available 
VAX or MIPS based system from DEC.

There is no performance information available in the public as of yet, and we
have stated that we will deliver Alpha systems by the end of the calendar year,
however I cannot give you more detail in a public forum than that.  
|>
|>Alternatively, point me to a source for this information.

Obviously, the best source for such information is your salesperson who can
give you detailed information under a non-disclosure agreement
|>
|>Second question:  Are these workstations running AVS, and if so, how well?

One of the systems at Siggraph was running AVS under VMS.  We also have it
running internally under OSF/1.  Many of the people who stopped by our booth
at Siggraph were quite impressed at the speed, especially given that we didn't 
have 3D hardware in the system.
--


William M. Jackson
Alpha Workstation Product Marketing Manager
Workstation Engineering
Digital Equipment Corporation
146 Main Street
Maynard, MA 01754

Mail:	Jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com
From: gbcacm@ccs.northeastern.edu (grater boston chapter of the acm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: VAX 4000 VLC CPU manual needed
Date: 12 Aug 92 10:29:44 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. @ NU


 I am looking for a manual describing the CPU and peripheral interfaces which
are built in to the CPU board for the VAX 4000 VLC. No one at DEC has been
able to help me; the manual does not ship with the VAXstation, nor is it in
the VAX 4000 VLC owner's guide.

There is an analogous manual for all other DEC CPUs (e g, EK-KA630 for the
MicroVAX II). The manual must exist, because otherwise the system programmers
could not have written the ROM code and lower-level OS functions.

The manual should describe the subsetting of the VAX architecture, the
machine-specific traps and exceptions, processor registers, and built-in
Ethernet and SCSI interfaces. It should also describe the firmware, behavior
on power-up, memory interface and map.

Anyone know how to get this manual, or who at DEC might know?

Peter Sherwood
gbcacm@northeastern.edu
(617) 332-8880
From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Configuring a DECstation 5000/240 for use as a "server"
Date: 21 Aug 92 14:31:08 GMT
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208

In article <133198@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, kchiles@mesa.llnl.gov (Keith Chiles) writes:
> 
> I am running a DECstation 5000/200 as a server and all we did was to set the 
> buffcache to about 50% to set aside a bunch more memory for file caching.
> 
  I would like to second that.  For whatever reason, logical, obvious, or 
  otherwise, putting in extra memory for a large disk buffer makes a world
  of difference performance-wise on these machines.

  greg pavlov
  pavlov@fstrf.org
From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: VAX QUESTIONS FROM BEGINNER!
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:38:51 GMT
Organization: Computervision - A Division of Prime Computer

In article <1992Aug15.091605.199@rlgsc.com>, gezelter@rlgsc.com writes:
> In article <1992Aug15.031519.27932@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, aj681@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Carlin Wiegner) writes:
>> 
>> I'm thinking of buying a used VAX -11/780 but I have a couple of
>> questions....
>> 
> At the risk of depressing the market value of used 780s, I note 
> that unless you are getting power, air conditioning, and office 
> space for free, the 780 is extremely expensive relative to the 
> latest (or for that matter last 6!) generations of small vax 
> hardware. So, you may want to check into the cost of the small 
> VAXstation 4000/VLC.
>  

And don't forget the maintainance charges if you plan on having software and/or
hardware support for the system.  We retired a number of 780 boxes using the
maintainance costs as a large part of the justification.

Ken
-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
**  Ken Brucker -- VMS/Ultrix Systems Programmer/Mangler -- Computer Vision
 **  kjb@calmasd.Prime.COM  
  **  Practice Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty
From: ddl@burrhus.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: 11/750 power supply help
Date: 21 Aug 92 05:17:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: burrhus.1992Aug21.051718.20788
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA


	I have an 11/750 power supply problem.  Within minutes of
power-on, the "reg fail" light comes on.  The "+5 fail" and "+2.5 fail"
lights are off, and, indeed, those voltages are present and correct.
In fact, the only voltage that looks odd is the -15 feed.  It starts
out around -15.1 and drifts to -14.5 at which point the "reg fail"
appears.  Thereafter it continues to about -14.2 and stays there.
Removing the +-15 load does not change the voltage, so the problem probably
really is the regulator.  Does anyone have a spare +-15 regulator module
they'd like to part with?  (I'm hoping the +-15 plug-in board is at fault,
but maybe the whole +5/+-15 unit would be easier, if heavier.) Alternately,
print sets could be useful...

				Thanks,
				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@harvard.*
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: phipps@ricks.enet.dec.com (Michael H. Phipps)
Subject: Re: Alpha benchmarks
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:02:19 GMT


In article <1992Aug12.160844.2486@nosc.mil>, lem@nosc.mil (Lemuel L. Davis) writes...
>Has anyone run or had DEC run any becnhmarks on Alpha systems?  I
>have just seen some image processing type benchmarks (not dependent
>on graphics subsystem) that were run on an Alpha system under both
>OSF and VMS, and the results were not very good.  The Alpha system
>came in at about the same level as an SGI R3000 Indigo, and
>considerably worse than SGI R4000 systems and top HP systems.
>
From: mjr@balrog.aecom.yu.edu (Mauricio Rosales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Intergraph 200 net
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:18:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Albert Einstein College of Medicine -- Dynamic Brain Imaging Lab


	We've inherited an Integraph 200  (almost a Micro VAX 2) it appears to 
have an ethernet MUX and whatever  VMS/Intergraph networking  software
was on it. Does anybody know how we can network it (TCP/IP or DEC Net)
with the rest of our network. 

			Mauricio Rosales
			mjr@manunix.cc.mancol.edu
From: t6mx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: allin1, wps+, and PC's
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:08:24 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Could use some help from anybody who knows WPS+...

I'm trying to use Allin1 2.4's option to "send without conversion" documents to
VMS.  I'd like to FTP the unconverted files to my PC, then pull them in with
any program or translator on the market. 

Ideas??

Thanks,
Ed Landgraf
C.S. Support
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: lobsang@unixland.natick.ma.us (Michael Levin)
Subject: how to put a pixmap onto window with DecWindows?
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix & Think_Tank BBS
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:31:22 GMT


    I know next to nothing about X-window programming. I have a
2-dimensional array (in C), consisting of color index values (small
integers). Is there any code somewhere that would show me how to take
this array, and make its contents appear in a DecWindows window (on
VMS)? Please reply to mlevin@presto.cs.tufts.edu. Thanks in advance.

Mike Levin
-- 
Maine Network Backup
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: hsong@ardour.bellcore.com (G. Hugh Song)
Subject: Bug in PostScript Previewer: dxpsview
Organization: Bellcore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 03:57:49 GMT

It has been a long time since I visited this newsgroup.  I am using
Ultrix 4.0 on DS5000/200.  It has been known that dxpsview on this 
machine has a bug which seems to make conflicts with X windows.
Also, I have to choose the last row in the option menu before I start
anything.  That option is something like "follow action" which has no
meaning since I cannot even start dxpsview without choosing it.

Has there been a better solution for this bug?

Thank you.

	Hugh
	hsong@ardour.bellcore.com
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From: rocker@csa.bu.edu (The Long Haired One)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.dec.micro,misc.forsale.computers,mit.bboard,bu.forsale,ne.forsale
Subject: forsale DEC Rainbow Graphic Option
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:28:27 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.dec
Distribution: comp,misc,mit,bu,ne
Organization: Boston University


DEC Rainbow Graphics Option Board

In working condition, tested and passed diagnostics on a RB100+ with a
VR241, I have one board installed so this is my spare I'm selling.

asking $75(shipping included within continental US)

email rocker@cs.bu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Subject: Re: What's the difference between a 5000/200 and a 5000/120?
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:02:14 GMT


In article <1992Aug13.130026.18036@wam.umd.edu>, alan@wam.umd.edu (Alan J. Schunemann) writes:
>
>What's the difference between a 5000/200 and a 5000/120?
>

Off the top of my head.

o  The Model 100s put the CPU on a daughter card.  This makes it
   easy to upgrade the CPU and keep everything else the same.
   For example there are Models 120, 125 and 133.

o  The Model 120 is an R3000 (maybe A) that runs at 20 MHz.  The
   125 runs at 25 MHz and so on.

o  The Model 120 and family use parity memory.  You can use the
   same memory modules as are used on the DECstation 3100 and
   2100 (MS01-AA) or a higher capacity module (MS01-CA).

o  The TURBOchannel on the 100 series runs at half the speed of
   the TURBOchannel on the 200.

o  The 100 series has space inside the system enclosure for some
   SCSI devices.  The 200 doesn't.

o  At the same clock speed I believe the 200 is faster.  Probably
   due to different memory subsystems.

o  I believe the built-in SCSI adapter on the 100 series supports
   DMA transfers.  This ended up being less expensive than the one
   on the 200.  Of course it's still on that half speed TUROBchannel.

o  They use a different serial line interface.  Thus switching a
   system disk between the two require remaking the special device
   files for the mouse and serial tty lines.

o  The Model 120 will cost less than a model 200, for an otherwise
   comparible system (same amount of memory and disk space).

--
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
From: jnc@CYGNUS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Reading rt-11 5" disk on IBM-PC
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:47:16 GMT
Reply-To: jnc@CYGNUS

The title is the question.

Is there any software that will do this, like the VMS
Exchange Program.


 Please e-mail to jnc@ecs.soton.ac.uk as I dont often read this board.

Thanks in advance 


		John Carter.
From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Alpha benchmarks
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:53:03 GMT
Organization: Computervision - A Division of Prime Computer

In article <1992Aug13.115706.5652@cl.cam.ac.uk>, rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
>>               Things such as compilers & microcode being optimised for
>                                            ^^^^^^^^^
>>ease of debugging, the OS & libraries built with debug, etc, etc.
> 
> _MICROCODE_????  On an ALPHA???

How about PAL code then?

Ken

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
**  Ken Brucker -- VMS/Ultrix Systems Programmer/Mangler -- Computer Vision
 **  kjb@calmasd.Prime.COM  
  **  Practice Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: 098802@adpdp2.lanl.gov (098802)
Subject: VMS-Sun Connectivity
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, EMVAX
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:57:00 GMT

TGV's Multinet package DOES provide for SMTP mail, although we have never set
it up at my site. See Chapter 7, Multinet System Administrator's Guide,
Configuring SMTP (this is a V3.0 manual I have).
From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Subject: Re: general questions about alpha workstations
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:19:31 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.121643.25225@engage.pko.dec.com> jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com () writes:
>
>One of the systems at Siggraph was running AVS under VMS.  We also have it
>running internally under OSF/1.  Many of the people who stopped by our booth
>at Siggraph were quite impressed at the speed, especially given that we didn't 
>have 3D hardware in the system.
>--

Did that system have an "HX" board? Will the 3D support (i.e. PXG) be
available at the end of the year with the first systems shipped?

Thanks

Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec