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From: engelsma@golden.cps.msu.edu (Engelsma Jonathan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: uC++ First Release
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:45:28 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University

In article <1378@frf.omron.co.jp>, andrew@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp (Andrew Walduck) writes:
|> Having used this package as a student...I strongly recommend that anyone
|> who is interested in using concurrent algorithms take a very serious
|> look at it.
|> 
|> Its very slick.
|> Image tasks, threads, and co-routines as C++ objects. To send, or receive
|> messages from them, just call a member function...
|>

So how does this package differ from the AT&T task library?   Can you
tell us more about the multi-processor ports? ie. are tasks mapped to
processors automatically or does the programmer have to do that?
 
|> Imagine spawning a task with:
|> 
|> uTask ptr = new aTask(parameters....);
|> 
|> communicating with it with...
|> 
|> ptr->aMessage(someMessage);
|> ptr->aDifferentMessage(anotherMessage);
|> 
|> and waiting for it to complete with...
|> delete ptr;
|>

You can do all this with the AT&T task library.

The initial posting seems to indicate that uC++ is an extension to
C++, and not just a set of classes.   The AT&T task library is simply
a set of base classes which one can inherit from to obtain co-routines.
This seems to be more desirable than augmenting C++ to arrive at yet
another language. 

The multiprocessor ports sound interesting though.  Anybody know if
the AT&T task library has been ported to any multiprocessing
environments?
 
|> 
|> Cheers.
|> Andrew
|> 
|> P.S. How's this for a glowing testimonial??? ;-) I liked using it...
|> 
|> Andrew Walduck -- OMRON Japan --andrew@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp

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From: "rick copley" <rick.copley@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: progress and s27
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:06:03 EST
Reply-To: "rick copley" <rick.copley@canrem.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

Is anyone else there using PROGRESS 4GL on a Sequent S27 running
ptx v1.2.3 ?  Do you have problems shutting off your servers sometimes ?

I'd like to talk to ANYONE running PROGRESS on a Sequent ...

hack();

rick.copley@canrem.com
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From: andrew@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp (Andrew Walduck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent,comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.mips,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: uC++ First Release
Date: 8 Apr 92 03:04:53 GMT
Reply-To: andrew@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp (Andrew Walduck)
Followup-To: comp.sys.sequent

Having used this package as a student...I strongly recommend that anyone
who is interested in using concurrent algorithms take a very serious
look at it.

Its very slick.
Image tasks, threads, and co-routines as C++ objects. To send, or receive
messages from them, just call a member function...

Imagine spawning a task with:

uTask ptr = new aTask(parameters....);

communicating with it with...

ptr->aMessage(someMessage);
ptr->aDifferentMessage(anotherMessage);

and waiting for it to complete with...
delete ptr;

It uses statically typed messages...

In the 2B CS course at Waterloo, you develop such projects as:
A concurrent quick sort...instead of recursing, you spawn child tasks, and
wait for them to complete!
a small parser that uses co-routines...
a simulation of an assembly line with workers, managers, and inspectors...
 (each is a single task, and they communicate!!)
a disk-scheduler that will accept input from multiple tasks

and several others...(which I've forgotten...but were very interesting!!)

Cheers.
Andrew

P.S. How's this for a glowing testimonial??? ;-) I liked using it...

Andrew Walduck -- OMRON Japan -- andrew@lsa.ncl.omron.co.jp 
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From: jdm1@eds1.eds.com (Jonathan D McCown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent,comp.sys.unisys,alt.unisys
Subject: 9-Track Tape Questions - Sequent/Unisys U6000-75
Summary: Braindamaged mag tape driver... any suggestions?
Keywords: TAPE SEQUENT UNISYS - AACK!
Date: 14 Apr 92 14:06:27 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Vogon Poets Society


We utilize a Unisys U6000-75 (a less sinister looking OEM of Sequent Symmetry)
for our Informix Online applications. (no I'm not looking for sympathy :-)

One of the adjunct functions this machine must support is unloading 9 Track
tapes received from sundry IBM shops and loading the resulting muck into the
database. Herein lies the problem:

Upon encountering a read error <<IRONY ON>> which so seldom happens, 
<<IRONY OFF>> dd exits with a 'read error'  (still acceptable behavior)
BUT the tape drive continues to crank along reading the tape, and no 
combination of button pushing and feverish prayer can make it return
more than "device busy"  UNTIL I REBOOT THE MACHINE.

Even running dd with a 'noerror' option buys very little here.

We are running the Unisys flavor of PTX 1.2  (4 processors, lots of memory
etc) and the tape drive is a Unisys/Kennedy which is attached to the mbus.
Tech support (Unisys) recommends fuser/kill to wipe out processes using the
device.. BUT by the time this hits there are no processes using the device.
(close the barn door... the horses have run off!)

Questions:

What do real Sequent shops use for 9 Track?  How is it interfaced (SCSI? :-)
Does it go braindead?  

Is there a general rule/observance on mbus drivers losing their minds?

Any suggestions for unwedging such a beast short of a reboot?

- Jon McCown (717)783-3256








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psuvax1!eds1!jdm1  "You don't want to get locked into  "Whaddaya want with yer' 
jdm1@eds1.eds.com   'open systems'." -anonymous IBM Rep.   jugged fish?" -MPFS 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
From: indep-12@mathcs.sjsu.edu (Kuan-Li Ong)
Subject: Help on Definition of rst0 and rmt8
Keywords: rst0, rmt8
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 06:01:17 GMT
Expires: April 30 

I know that rst0 is used with 1/4" tape and rmt8 is used with 1/2"
tape.

I am curious about what 'r' 's' 't' '0' and 'r' 'm' 't' '8' stand for.

If you have any information, please kindly email me the information to
	indep-12@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU

Thanks.

Kuan-Li Ong
From: kevinc@sequent.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: ipcs instruction
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:09:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: sequent.1992Apr13.220956.10902
Distribution: na
Organization: .

In article <1992Apr13.141331.26276@ms.uky.edu> kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes:

>It's also in dynix (3.1.2 at least) in /bin (SysV universe) or
>/usr/att/bin (BSD universe).


   This is true,  but remember that IPC shared memory is implemented
  by mmap()'ing a file in /usr/tmp/SysVshmem and therefore the "-m"
  switch to ipcs is not operational.  



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From: jr3w+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Davis Raborn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: High speed/volume printing
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:47:11 GMT
Organization: Administrative Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I am curious about high speed/volume printing at other Sequent sites. 

We are currently dependent on a Xerox 4090 (90 pages/minute) with the
average volume over the past few months at 400,000 pages/month. 

With these kind of printing requirements, what are other sites doing? 

Anybody got direct connections to the Sequent for this kind of volume printing?

Thanks for any responce.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Looking for Power Supply
From: halcomb@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu
Date: 5 Apr 92 13:20:27 CST
Organization: Wichita State University, Wichita, Ks

I am looking for a power supply for a DEC Rainbow 100B+ with hard disk.  If you
have one which is not being used, or have suggestions where I can get one for
less than the worth of my total system, that information would be helpful and
would be appreciate.

Thanks

Send information to 
	Halcomb@WSU.PSY.TWSU.EDU

Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
From: wampler@thoas.microunity.com (Kurt Wampler)
Subject: P/OS Diskette version sought
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:04:30 GMT


Now...don't laugh!
I was contacted by a nice lady in Florida who has inherited a PRO-325 system
from (it would appear) a car dealership, where it was installed as a
"SUBARU Star System".  She would like to use this machine to do a little
word processing and printing.  A PRO-325 (by definition) had no hard disk;
just the dual RX50 floppy drives.  She was referred to me for help by the
DECUS library.  She sent me the only floppy diskettes that were given to her
with the system; they contain fragments of the Subaru Star software, which
looks vaguely RT-11 based.

What I'd like to put together for her is a 2- or 3-floppy package consisting
of P/OS (diskette version, not hard disk version), PROSE, and Print Services.
I'm missing a few pieces, though.  I've got P/OS 1.5 diskette version, but
the only application diskette is a maintenance diskette that goes with that.
I've got the complete P/OS 1.7, 2.0, 3.2 hard disk systems including the tool
kit.

If someone out there has a dusty old set of P/OS 1.5 or 1.7 floppies in the
diskette (not hard disk) version, that would be the ticket for this lady.

Please respond by e-mail if you can offer any help.  Thanks in advance!

Kurt Wampler
wampler@MicroUnity.com
From: trowe@cc.utah.edu (Thomas B. Rowe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: OS for PDP-11/53
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:31:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: cc.7APR199216313141
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1


	I was given a MicroPDP-11/53, it is currently running DSM-11.  I want 
to be able to run COBOL on it, and was told that I would need to run either
RSX or RSTS.  If any one out their has a Licence and the Documentation and 
Media for either RSX or RSTS running on a PDP 11/53, that they are no longer
using and would be interested in selling, please send me E-mail.  Also I would 
be interested in COBOL that would run on top of either Operating System.

	Also I am familiar with VMS, but have no prior experience with any of 
the operating systems for the PDP series, any recommendations, or comments on
the strengths and weaknesses of RSX vs RSTS would be appreciated.

	One last thing I am looking for a replacement TK50 tape drive
From: bruce@ais.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: VT100
Date: 12 Apr 92 12:54:57 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC

In article <BOUILLIN.92Apr7154008@node_3f5e2.tele.nokia.fi>, bouillin@tele.nokia.fi (Claude Bouillin) writes:
> Could anybody tell me if the DEC VT100 standard has ever been 
> published?
> Is it available on paper, in electronic form? Any help would be
> appreciated.

I'm not exactly sure what you want when you say "DEC VT100 standard"
because the VT100 escape sequences themselves are not a standard.

The DEC VT100 sequences are based on ANSI standard X3.64 (I think that's
the right one) but are neither a strict subset nor a strict superset of
the ANSI standard.

If you want the ANSI standard or one of its follow-ons from ISO you could
contact the appropriate organizations:

	ANSI Standards

	Sales Department
	American National Standards Institute
	1430 Broadway
	New York, NY 10018

	ISO Standards

	CCITT
	UN Book Store
	United Nations Building
	New York, NY 10017

There may be locations in Europe that would be more convenient for you,
but I don't have their addresses.

If you want the DEC escape sequences (which may be more useful anyway
because that's the set that most DEC and ANSI terminals implement anyway -
most of the non-DEC terminals and terminal emulators implement the DEC
extensions and many of them don't implement the features defined in the
standards that the the DEC terminals don't have anyway), you can contact
DEC.  They have a number of books on the various members of the VT100 
family, probably the most useful ones would be the ones on the VT330/VT340
(which includes the VT320, VT240, VT220, and VT100 sequences as subsets) -
the manual on VT330/VT340 text mode escape sequences is order number
EK-VT3xx-TP-002.  Documentation on features specific to the VT420 are
summarized in the VT420 user's guide (as are the VT320 sequences in the 
VT320 user's guide), these are named EK-VT420-UG-001 and EK-VT320-UG-001
respectively.  You can also get more detailed information on the use of
these escape sequences in other DEC manuals but these are sufficient for
most purposes (the information in the User's Guides is rather terse, the
VT330/VT340 manual mentioned above is much more explanatory).  I don't
know what the best contact point would be for DEC from Europe.

There are also various summaries of these sequences available in machine
readable form but I don't have a copy of any of them around (haven't needed
to since I have the above mentioned hard copy documentation ...).

If you have a question about how to do a particular operation or about
how a particular sequence works I'd be happy to try to answer it but I
don't want to type in a complete summary of the escape sequences myself -
the complete list with explanation is quite lengthy ...

Good luck -

Bruce C. Wright
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: new posters to this group . . .
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:54:55 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.130935.6899@sci.kun.nl> tmiller@sci.kun.nl (Todd M. Miller) writes:
>
>The biggest problem with these PRO's is getting good software.  The P/OS
>operating system isn't too bad but the manuals cost a fortune from DECUS.
>So the problem is really DECUS and this pseudo public domain status of P/OS.
>I have the entire tape for P/OS 3.2 and an ftp site to put it on, but is
>that legal?  Probably not.  On the other hand there is never going to be
>a renewed interest in programming the PRO's under the DECUS system.

Submission to DECUS means that you can copy it.  You can't sell it and you have
to include DEC's copyright notice, but you can distribute it; that's what DECUS
does; the charges are "overhead" charges, not license fees.

>My advice is:

[...]

>4. Write your own operating system - Not a smart move because the 11/23 is
>outdated.

In spite of virtually no documentation, I did this for the DECmate.  Actually
I already wrote a system for the PDP-8 and have figured out most of what's
different about the beast from the -8's.  It's enough to be annoying but not
impossible to fix.

  I am also spearheading an effort to clean up DEC's system which has been 
submitted to DECUS and is therefore public domain.  Also, I distribute, through
Columbia University and the Kermit project, a few utilities from DEC's system
which are taken from the DECUS submission directly.  (They are needed to create
Kermit-12, my implementation of Kermit for the DECmate and PDP-8.)

cjl
From: bouillin@tele.nokia.fi (Claude Bouillin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: VT100
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:40:08 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: kpd

Could anybody tell me if the DEC VT100 standard has ever been 
published?
Is it available on paper, in electronic form? Any help would be
appreciated.

	Thanks in advance to anybody wishing to answer me.
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From: bouillin@tele.nokia.fi (Claude Bouillin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: VT100
Date: 14 Apr 92 06:42:58 GMT
	<1992Apr9.224023.21326@microunity.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: kpd

Many thanks to all of you (two) who bothered answering my question.
I might try to be in touch with you personally, if you don't see
any problem to that.

	Thanks again,	
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
From: kcwellsc@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Ken Wellsch)
Subject: Re: VENIX (was Re: new posters to this group . . .)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 12:31:22 GMT

> I don't think VENIX checks the ID-prom after the machine is booted, so
> you may be able to get away with stuffing your hard disk into a
> machine for which you've got the ID-codes and installing there, then
> putting the hard disk back into your machine.  But, I've got no way of
> testing that idea as I've only got one Pro.

I think it checks at boot, my one experience moving a drive with Venix
on it to another system while testing would not boot until reinstalled
with the necessary password.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
From: eric@beastie.colby.edu (Eric)
Subject: Re: new posters to this group . . .
Organization: None whatsoever.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 01:31:41 GMT

In article <ENTROPY.92Apr13200654@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu> entropy@gnu.ai.mit.edu (maximum entropy) writes:
>Unfortunately, Venix (VenturCom's UNIX for the Pro) reads the Pro's
>ID-PROM and generates some numbers which you were supposed to give to
>VenturCom over the phone to get a code that would allow you to install
>Venix on your machine.  Without the code for your ID-PROM, you can't
>install it.  So, copying Venix is non-trivial.  I doubt VenturCom is
>willing to give out these passwords anymore.  So, your best bet is to
>buy a used Pro that already has Venix installed on it.  If you can
>find one, that is....

I've played with a set of Venix distribution floppies... 

When you boot the build disk (the only one which is bootable) it gives
you the choice of installing venix or popping a shell... If you tell it
you want to install, it goes through the whole password thing. However,
if you choose the shell option it will give you a root shell from the
floppy file system, which is a root filesystem containing what looks
like everything you'd need to do the installation by hand... I.e., mkfs,
mount, tar, and a /dev directory containing device files for pretty much
everything on the system (including the hard disk devices). Not having
a working hard disk or controller, I've never tried this, but I was able
to get directories of and extract some files from all the other
distribution floppies, which are just normal tar-format archives of the
/usr file system and other such stuff. Unless there's something weird
there which will prevent you from doing this, it might be possible to
install the system by hand....

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Pro380 keyboard dead
From: petrisko@evax2.engr.arizona.edu (William Petrisko)
Date: 13 Apr 92 00:17:17 MST
Reply-To: petrisko@evax2.engr.arizona.edu
Distribution: usa,local
Organization: University of Arizona, College of Engineering and Mines, Tucson

I have a Dec Pro 380....it seems to boot fine except that the keyboard
is dead --no lights and no response from the keys.  

I have tried a known working keyboard of the appropriate model #
(from dec support).

Question--is there a certain controller/interface chip that has been
known to fail in dec pro's that could be easily replaced?  Or am i
really getting my hopes up?  I guess it _is_ doing a good job of keeping
the door open.

Thanks for any info...
-bill

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
From: eric@beastie.colby.edu (Eric)
Subject: mail problems!
Organization: None whatsoever.
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:07:49 GMT


eep!

To Tim Thompson:

I'm getting your mail, but can't respond, the nameservers don't
seem to recognize your site... your mail says it's coming from
"mix.mixcom.com!mixcom.mixcom.com!xxwwxx" but I can't send mail to
there... Is there another address I can use?



				eric

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From: rocker@csa.bu.edu (The Long Haired One)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: FidoNET Rainbow EchoMail(WAS: new posters to this group . . .)
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:45:55 GMT
	<1992Apr16.055118.24939@luga.latrobe.edu.au>
Organization: Boston University
In-reply-to: CCPN@lure.latrobe.edu.au's message of 16 Apr 92 05:51:18 GMT


Has anyone heard of someone taking up the reigns of doing crossposting from
here to there? Someone use to do it, but there hasn't been much in a long
time. When I've gotten the chance to get on a FidoBBS carrying it, there
tends to be some useful info or parts that people may want/need.

Anyone know anything? Are there others besides me interested in this?

-Rocker
"Long Live the 'Bow"
From: chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Chaim R. Dworkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: new posters to this group . . .
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:10:29 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <ENTROPY.92Apr13200654@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu> entropy@gnu.ai.mit.edu (maximum entropy) writes:

>Unfortunately, Venix (VenturCom's UNIX for the Pro) reads the Pro's
>ID-PROM and generates some numbers which you were supposed to give to
>VenturCom over the phone to get a code that would allow you to install
>Venix on your machine.  Without the code for your ID-PROM, you can't
>install it.  So, copying Venix is non-trivial.  I doubt VenturCom is
>willing to give out these passwords anymore.  So, your best bet is to
>buy a used Pro that already has Venix installed on it.  If you can
>find one, that is....
>
I purchased a used copy of venix from someone and called VenturCom,
gave them the ID numbers and they gave me the code for installation.
Although they don't sell or support Venix they are still willing to
calculate the installation codes.  They also gave me the impression
that they don't care much anymore who gives it to whom.

The only thing I can add is that my old useless Pro is a whole new
machine with venix on it.

Chaim



Chaim R. Dworkin
chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu
From: chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Chaim R. Dworkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: new posters to this group . . .
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:12:50 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Apr14.013141.19422@cs.yale.edu> eric@beastie.colby.edu (Eric) writes:
>
>I've played with a set of Venix distribution floppies... 
>
> it might be possible to
>install the system by hand....
>
There is a possibility that the kernal may check for the PROM ID every time
it boots.



Chaim R. Dworkin
chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu