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From: welch@nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arun Welch)
Subject: Re: Why is Sun abandoning SunOS4.1.3?
Originator: welch@nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: OSU-LAIR
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:44:16 GMT

In article <root.725919544@maui> kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb) writes:
   In <1928@niktow.canisius.edu> pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov) writes:

   >In article <C03HLL.41z@fsg.com>, msf@fsg.com (Michael S. Fischbein) writes:
   >> 
   >> Contrast this with the complete lack of committment on their
   >> competitor's parts in developing OSF/1 shortly thereafter.  Neither IBM
   >> nor DEC, nor any of the other OSF players ever actually committed to
   >> *using* OSF/1 on their machines. .... 
   >> 
   >  That will be very unexpected news to the several hundred software vendors
   >  porting applications to DEC Alpha OSF/1 systems .....

   Why is it that DEC (at least locally) refuses to give a release date
   for OSF on Alpha then? [.]  From what I understand, OSF will be available
   93Q3, but what about the old Ultrix vendors who are hosed? 

Just to inject some real data into the discussion... Venue's Lisp product,
Medley, is already ported to OSF/1 on the MIPS-based DEC machines and
on the Alpha's (the port was first done to the MIPS machines, then to
the Alpha when it became available).  The person who did the port sez
it took him about 3 weeks.

Some trade rag also recently reported that IBM's AIX for the 3090's is
OSF/1-based. I dunno if that's all the way down to the kernel or not,
it wasn't reported. Can't remember which rag it was either.

...arun
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: rhatcher@alcvax.pfc.mit.edu
Subject: HP Deskwriter + Sun 3/80
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:43:01 GMT

I am considering (almost close to buying) a HP Deskjet 500 to use with
my Sun 3/80. Anyone out there with relevant experiences (good or bad),
caveats, or helpful hints. All replies are greatly appreciated. Please
do not respond to this account. Please send all replies to 

rhatcher@theory.pppl.gov

Thanks in advance,
			R 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: acb@Ziggy.csl.ncsu.edu (Andrew C. Burnette)
Subject: Re: Why is Sun abandoning SunOS4.1.3?
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:59:26 GMT

In article <16178@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
|> >Neither IBM
|> >nor DEC, nor any of the other OSF players ever actually committed to
|> >*using* OSF/1 on their machines.
|> 
|> To be fair, DEC does seem to be moving in the direction of having OSF/1
|> be their UNIX offering; their last position was, I think, that they'd
|> even put it on their MIPS-based machines.
|> 
|> However, I've not heard any committment from IBM or HP to use OSF/1 in
|> its entirety on all their UNIX platforms, although IBM is, I think,
|> using it as the basis for the AIX running on 390's and maybe PS/2's (not
|> to be confused with the AIX running on RS/6000's).
Dec has committed to support OSF-1 on the alpha chip 2Q93.
Their mips based systems will eventually get OSF-1 also,  BUT it is only
a bug fixed version of the developers release which is out now.
IBM and HP have retreated,  and will not support OSF-1 and it's mach kernel in
their respective OS's.  In any case,  I think they are all moving toward
the system V.4 interface definition,  so the differences *should* be small.
Later,
-- 
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Andrew C. Burnette  acb@ncsu.edu 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
Subject: Re: Sun 3/60 / Archive QIC-150 boot problems
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:06:44 GMT

lindh@uhasun.hartford.edu (Andrew Lindh) writes:


>In article <BzAHv7.CoB@pix.com>, lidl@pix.com (Kurt J. Lidl) writes:
>> In article <eric.724211784@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu> eric@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu (Eric Volpe) writes:
>> >Hi... I'm having a problem using a Sun 3/60 (prom rev lvl. 1.6) with
>> >an Archive QIC-150 SCSI tape. 
>> 
>> I was told once by a fairly reliable source that all the sun3
>> series computers didn't have support for booting off 150meg drives.

>Just for your info, I have booted the SunOS on a Sun-2/120 (yes 68010)
>with 1.1.2 ROMs. It takes a while and has a warning message, but it
>boots from tape. And it works with SunOS 4.0.3

Not too suprising.  68101 4.0.3 will boot off rev N proms.  I know, I've
done it.  But, in the case of the 3/60, it's a whole different game. 
You need fairly recent boot proms to boot off tape successfully.


>But I have heard of connect/disconnect problems with mixing the old
>SCSI equipment. Personally I don't use the 2150s on my Sun-2, it's not
>worth it, I just stick with the 60meg tape.

Actually, a 2150S will not work reliably on a 2/120.  To quote a friend
of mine who used to OEM the buggers:
 "Sun used a bastard SCSI on the 2's.  It's amazing anything works."

I can agree, having tried many different disks & tapes. Another friend
has a 2/120 running a CDC WREN IV, (and booting!) but most advanced
disks won't work.

-Pete

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: paulr@fulcrum.oz.au (Paul Rosham)
Subject: Re: Why is Sun abandoning SunOS4.1.3?
Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:08:42 GMT

kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb) writes:

>In <1928@niktow.canisius.edu> pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov) writes:
>>In article <C03HLL.41z@fsg.com>, msf@fsg.com (Michael S. Fischbein) writes:
>>> 
>>> Contrast this with the complete lack of committment on their
>>> competitor's parts in developing OSF/1 shortly thereafter.  Neither IBM
>>> nor DEC, nor any of the other OSF players ever actually committed to
>>> *using* OSF/1 on their machines. .... 
>>> 
>>  That will be very unexpected news to the several hundred software vendors
>>  porting applications to DEC Alpha OSF/1 systems .....

>Why is it that DEC (at least locally) refuses to give a release date
>for OSF on Alpha then?  At this point, only VMS is supposed to be
>available on Alpha.  From what I understand, OSF will be available
>93Q3, but what about the old Ultrix vendors who are hosed?  Sounds
>like the same complaint that's being lodged against sun.


Just a thought...
	Did DEC kill their MIPS line stone dead, or what?
	Are they still selling it? Will it have the latest OS release?
	Which OS? Sounds like the Sun 3 treatment to me ;-)
	Sounds like another whole architecture fly-sprayed into oblivion.
	Seems like they get no flames for it, tho'.

-PaulR.
From: sammy@smds.com (Samuel Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Sun's GUI and OS mistakes (was Re: LX a
Date: 31 Dec 92 18:51:20 GMT
Reply-To: sammy@ishmael.UUCP (Samuel Murphy)
Organization: Software Maintenance & Development Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Dec21.161330.16572@news.duc.auburn.edu> elling@eng.auburn.edu writes:
>In article 668@lokkur.dexter.mi.us, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons) writes:
>>At the LISA conference we had a Sun-Managers BOF.  I surveyed the
>>audience and asked a number of leading questions (hey, it was my BOF :-))
>

>1. What window manager do you use?  olwm, olvwm, twm, tvwm, mwm, other.
...
>2. What GUI do your apps use?  openlook, motif, or other.
...
>3. If OpenWindows were as fast as X11/R?, would you still hate it?
...

The questions I'd like to see on a survey goe something like:

If you had a useful program that used the Motif widget set would you REFUSE to use it?

If you had a useful program that used the Openlook widget set would you REFUSE to use it?

If you had a useful program that used the DECwindows widget set would you REFUSE to use it?

If you had a useful program that used the Macintosh widget set would you REFUSE to use it?
 
If you had a useful program that used the ________ widget set would you REFUSE to use it?
 

One problem with surveys is designing a valid question set is hard work
and not often the the desire of the surveyer. 

Sam Murphy
sammy@smds.com
From: dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil (David P. Kemp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Puzzle Systems Board Problems
Date: 30 Dec 92 01:17:33 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <Dec16.203745.34276@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> dennis@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Dennis Miyoshi) writes:
>   ...   After several 
>calls to my vendor and Puzzle Systems Corp. I was informed that this
>product does not work with the GXplus display card from SUN because
>it is a 24-bit card.  My documentation however states that this card
>is an 8-bit card with is supposed to work in the synergyII world.
>
Your vendor and/or Puzzle Systems are mistaken.  The GX-plus is an
8 bit card, as is the GX.  The GX-plus is capable of 1280x1024 resolution
and hardware double buffering, but it still has only 8 planes.


-- 
   Dave Kemp   dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: chen@mecad.uta.edu (Doe John Chen)
Subject: Sparc clones
Organization: Univ. Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:32:58 GMT


Does anybody know the price and how I can get more information of 
the following Sparc clones ?

(1) COMPstation 25 (made by Tatung)
(2) SAMPO 9020 (made by Sampo)
(3) DTKstation 1+ (made by DTK)

Thank you !!

Doe-john Chen
Mechanical Engineering
Univ. of Texas at Arlington
chen@mecad.uta.edu
From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Sun 3/60 SCSI Port
Date: 2 Jan 93 18:31:36 GMT
Organization: cic

dougvoss@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Douglas Voss) writes:

>I have heard a couple of vague references to problems with the SCSI
>port on Sun 3/60's.  

>Can anyone confirm/deny the existence of a problem?  Further can
>anyone fill me in on the details?  (which pins are wrong etc)

Can you try to be more specific? Or is this all you heard?

In any case, the problem I remember is that on the earlier
3/60's, the TERMPWR pin is shorted to ground. Verify this before
connecting any equipment you not damn sure of. Best is to measure
for a short on the 3/60, and for voltage on TERMPWR on the peripherals.
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From: mea@polaris.utu.fi (Matti Aarnio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Exabyte EXB-8500 causing system to hang
Date: 30 Dec 92 22:15:29 GMT
Organization: University of Turku, Computing Centre

seltzer@sda.com (Wayne Seltzer) writes:
>Occasionally, our system hangs when dumping to the Exabyte.
>Need to L1-A to reboot.
>
>We get the following console message:
>
>st1:    Error for command 'write', Error Level:'Fatal'
>         Block: 16       File Number: 0
>         Sense Key: Media Error
>         Vendor (Exabyte 8mm Helical Scan) Unique Error Code: 0x3
>
>So far, this only seems to happen when dumping and in single user mode,
>but, statistically, that is 90% of our use of the drive.

  We have an EXB-8200, and it does (did) give similar errors.
Turned out to be DIRTY driver.  It went to cleaning at factory,
and now runs smoothly.  (This is not Sun supplied unit.)
Hmm... Today it has given similar trouble again, well, 4 months
since last time...

...
>So...
>Have you experienced such a problem?
>(I mean, with the EXB-8500 and system hangs -- not mediocre support
> from Sun.  I *know* your answer to that question.)

  No, it didn't hand the system, only access to the exabyte, had to
power cycle the driver once - without power cycling the system - to
get it into sensible order.

  We have had similar trouble with HP-88780 1/2" reel front-loading
driver (our tape0, Sun supplied hardware), and for that Sun has been
unable to provide an answer for..

>Thanks!

>--
>Wayne Seltzer                                  seltzer@sda.com
>Software Design & Analysis, Inc.               +1 (303) 444-9100
>1113 Spruce St, Suite 500, Boulder, CO 80302

	/Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi>
		University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb)
Subject: Re: POINTLESS SPECULATION re: Sunergy (SPAR
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:57:42 GMT

In <1993Jan3.175658.16599@icd.teradyne.com> steele@icd.teradyne.com (Alan Steele) writes:


>If what has been said here is true, then SunExpert magazine is probably
>only going to add to the confusion with their article on the classic/LX
>in the Dec. 1992 issue.  On p. 6, they say:

>"Rumor has it that the machine *will* run with Solaris 1.x, but very
>slowly at best."

>Comments?

*sigh*  Once again, Per *has actually tried this*.  SPARCclassics will
*NOT* run Solaris 1.x.  This is one of those situations where the
magazine is wrong.

-- 
Ken Bibb                "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
kbibb@qualcomm.com	 universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
jester@crash.cts.com     their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
				--"The Dead", James Joyce

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: dbd@urartu.sdpa.org (David Davidian)
Subject: Looking for Info on Audio Input on SPARC 1
Organization: S.D.P.A. Center for Regional Studies
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:36:22 GMT


Looking for info on audio input for a SPARC. Is there any public domain sw or
aftermarket texts on the subject. Nothing fancy, just how to access the
/dev driver, etc.

If this is part of a FAQ, could a kind soul email it to me. 

Thanks a million / Have a Nice Holiday-New Year.

David Davidian dbd@urartu.sdpa.org


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (Tan Jin Meng)
Subject: Need to compare a SS10 with HP715/50
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 08:50:50 GMT

The subject line says it all...

I need to compare between a SS10 model 30 (with GX) and a 
HP715/50MHz (no CRX). I'd appreciate any comments or pointers to 
relevant publications.

Thanks

jin meng
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay {Ultra Unix SW Mgr})
Subject: Re: SMD drives and the Sparc 690MP
Organization: Ultra Network Technologies
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 20:32:21 GMT

erl@powell.cs.jt.dk (Erik Bruijn Larsen) writes:

>mjewison@nereid.sal.ists.ca (Mike Jewison) writes:

>>Is it possible
>>to take the SMD controller card from the 4/280 and plug it directly into 
>>the 690MP?

>As far as I know it is possible to plug a SMD controller in the Sparc 690MP.
>SMD controllers should also be supported by Solaris 2.x.

Yes, you can plug it in, but it won't work unless you get some extra
software.  Support for SMD disk drives is NOT standard in SunOS for
the 600MP.  

The Sun Consulting group sells a product which supports 7053 SMD
controllers and Xylogics 472 tape controllers on 600MP's.  Sorry,
I don't have details on how to contact them or how much it costs.

Our Sun sales rep tells us that 451 and 7053 disk controllers are
supported in Solaris 2.1, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes.

Steve Jay
shj@ultra.com  ...ames!ultra!shj
Ultra Network Technologies / 101 Dagget Drive / San Jose, CA 95134 / USA
(408) 922-0100 x130	"Home of the 1 Gigabit/Second network"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: jhrv@ellis.uchicago.edu (John M. Kim)
Subject: Re: Sparc 2 panics with Fast SCSI/buffered ethernet installed
Reply-To: jhrv@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Center for Population Economics
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 08:48:08 GMT

In article <BzGn8v.Mz8@well.sf.ca.us> gaarder@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Gaarder) writes:
>I have actually succeeded in getting a Fast SCSI/Buffered Ethernet (FSBE)
>card, but have not succeed in getting it to work.  When it is installed
>in my SparcStation 2, I get 2 errors.  During the probe time, the
>message "esp1: no dma controller" appears.  Later, I get:
>
>le1: panic: can't initialize chip
>
>and the system dumps core and halts.  I've talked to Sun tech support;
>sending me a new board didn't work, and now they're pretty clueless.
>Any clues?

I've had the same problem, except the messages are "esp1: cannot find
dma controller" and "le1: failed to initialize chip", if I remember
correctly.  The Sun field engineer I talked to said it's a bad card.
Unfortunately, because of the limited supply, Sun can't even give us a
date when they expect to ship out the replacement.  How did you get
your replacement so fast?

I hope it's not some basic incompatibility between the SS2 and the
FSBE card.  Anyone have a FSBE working in an SS2?
From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: SuperSparc Multiprocessor upgrade for 670MP
Date: 30 Dec 92 02:51:38 GMT
Organization: NobelTech AB

In article <ljetfmINNgki@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> dwf@doug.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>We are infact shipping SuperSPARC versions of the 6x0 product now, as
>well as a small number of upgrades. 
>
>Check with your sales person.

Has anybody out of SUN seen any upgrades ? Is it more than a year since you 
ordered ? Should I bring out the champagne ?

/Per
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: beaulieu@bose.com (Larry Beaulieu)
Subject: Re: Sun 3/280 What is max memory?
Organization: Bose Corporation
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:58:22 GMT


	You have the early documentation.  32MB
	boards were released near the end of the
	3/200 product life.  A total of 128MB
	is actually supported on these systems.

	Sun P/N 501-1451

	Clearpoint P/N SNX2RAM/32MB
	                     (/16MB - 16MB board)		

	are 32MB ECC memory boards for the 3/200
	(and 3/400,4/200) systems.

	The installation order is slots 6-4-3-2
	on a 3/280. On a 3/260 the order is 6-2-3-4.
	Why this is true I don't know.

	Try installing the 3 8MB Sun boards
	first, setting the jumper blocks
	appropriately near the LEDS. Jumper
	0 (and ONLY jumper 0) is in for the 
	1st Sun board, only jumper 1 for
	the 2nd board, etc.  You will either
	need to read the Clearpoint docs or
	call them in Hopkinton, MA. to get the
	scoop on your 16MB board.

	You also need to install the P2 terminator
	@ location 34F - near the P2 connector - on
	the memory board at slot 6. All the other 
	memory boards must have this terminator
	removed.

	The phone # for Clearpoint that I have is
	1-800-743-2578.
--
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Larry Beaulieu			beaulieu@bose.com
Bose Corporation		Phone: 508-879-1916 x6479
Framingham, MA 01701-9168	FAX:   508-820-4865	

		All flames gleefully ignored.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: TKUS135@TWNMOE10.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Asking info abut Sun's XDBus
Date: 29 Dec 92 16:21:59 GMT
Organization: Ministry of Education, Computer Center NETNEWS system V2.3

Greetings:

Could anyone point me to find papers, journals or documents that
are concerning to Sun's XDBus (XBus + Dynabus ?)?
I recall about one year ago, there was an article in EE Times (?)
which adverted that the Xerox's Dynabus is similar to IEEE Futurebus+
but with different assignment of control & status registers.
Since then, it seems no much advanced info about Dynabus can be afforded
until recently that Sun SPARCcenter 2000 release news mentioned that
the XDbus is adopted in the system.

Meanwhile, it is reported that maximun 32 proceossors can be pluged
into the Furturebus+ backplane. Should this imply that the XDbus being
restricted by the same limitation?

Please forward your direction to me directly.

Thanks,

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Yin-Chih Lin                   Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
Design Eng.                    Computer & Communication Research Labs.  (CCL)
lycmit@x1sun6.ccl.itri.org.tw  Microcomputer System Department X100
Tel: 886-35-917331             14 Bldg, 195 Chung Hsing Rd., Section 4
Fax: 886-35-917503             Chutung, Hsinchu 31015
                               Taiwan, R.O.C.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jwa@yog-sothoth.dcrt.nih.gov (James W. Adams)
Subject: Re: dial-in modem setup
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:22:40 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.161954.15618@w8hd.org> kimc@w8hd.org (Kim Culhan) writes:
> 
>>My Sparc ELC's also don't have /etc/gettydefs and it is not in the man pages.
>>What is the format for this file and who (which program) uses it?
>I didn't do anything with gettydefs (doesn't exist on my 4.1.2 system.) 
>If you set the modem to 'always return carrier high' then
>there is, of courese, no way for the machine to get the message that
>a connection has been made. I found I needed it to be high in order to 
>communicate with it on outbound calls, however.
>If CD is not asserted, you can't see any data coming from it (try it..)
>I found the ideal solution to this problem to be this:
>[...]

Read the zs man page.  It tells you how to configure the port to dial
out without CD asserted using a device with minor number 128 greater
than the corresponding /dev/tty*

This, combined with disabling echo and result codes and using the &D3
mode to reset the modem, will work for outgoing and incoming calls.
You can then set the modem so CD follows carrier.  The built-in locking
will prevent getty from opening the corresponding /dev/tty* device when
CD goes high on outgoing data calls.

You can put an initialization string in applications such as Kermit that
use result codes in order to reset echo and result codes if needed.  The
/etc/ttytab should not say "local" for the modem port. There should be
no /etc/ttytab entry for the outgoing line (/dev/cua*).

--
        James W. Adams   --   NIH Scientific Computing Resource Center
        Building 12A, Room 1050              phone: (301) 402-4154
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: nitkin@ptdcs2.intel.com (Nate Itkin ~)
Subject: C2 security question
Organization: Intel Corporation -- Aloha, Oregon
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 06:52:48 GMT


Hello,

Has anyone successfully converted to C2 security with a heterogeneous 
environment of NIS clients.  (ie, Ultrix, AIX, SunOS, etc.)  The NIS master 
is a Sun.

I'm not particularly interested in C2 auditing, but I would like C2
authentication.  That is, I would like to keep the encrypted passwords in 
/etc/security/passwd.adjunct and /etc/security/group.adjunct. However, it's 
not obvious how to accomplish this with a mixed environment.  Ultrix appears 
to have similar functionality with the auth database, but it's incompatible 
with NIS.  AIX, (heavy sigh) is another animal altogether.

Is the "new and improved" NIS client software which makes this possible
(ypbind, rpc.pwdauthd, etc.) available for Ultrix and AIX?  Or is there 
perhaps a way to fake out Ultrix and AIX such that C2 authentication can be 
implemented without modification?

Kerberos is just around the corner, but C2 authentication would be a nice 
interim step.  Any and all help appreciated.  Even if the answer is "you 
can't get there from here", that would be good to know to.

----
Nate Itkin
Portland Technology Development, Intel Corporation      Aloha, Oregon
E-mail:  nitkin@ptdcs2.intel.com
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