HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pettengill@cvg.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: Layoff rumors
Reply-To: pettengill@cvg.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 08:09:38 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.032618.15040@panix.com>, dfl@panix.com (Danny O'Bedlam) writes:

|>	after hearing tonights report on All Things Considered that
|>DECs second quarter results were a $1.8 BILLION loss.  I think that
|>15,000 is an incredibly SMALL number.  The other rumored figure was
|>30,000 and I'll bet thats right on the money.  

The 1.8 billion is not an operating loss; the operating loss for the
quarter was less than 200 million.  This is less than 5% of gross and
DEC has over 100,000 employees world wide.

About 1.5 billion represents various charges, that include among other things,
write offs of investment in improvements to buildings (ie., if you close
a plant, then the money spent years ago and capitalized for carpet, phones,
etc., which has not been depreciated needs to be written off), money spent
on severance pay in the future which is less than the salary that would have
been paid over the next year, and so on.  In general, the IRS will not allow
losses of this nature to be reported for tax purposes, but the SEC requires
that they be charged against income as soon as known, even cash won't be
spent for months or even years.

I'm not minimizing the negative aspects of the the past several years
financials, but at the same time, I want to make it clear that DEC is not
about to fold like a lot of other companies have done in recent years.
DEC has always been very conservatively run, and as a result has essentially
no debt, but on the other hand a conservative mind set can result in failing
to accept that an asset is worth half today what it was worth yesterday;
you can see wide spead evidence of this when you look at the prices of
houses on the market relative to the prices of houses that have been sold.

DEC has drastically reduced prices on computer systems in the past year,
and as a result has sold more computers than ever.  However, the reduced
margins required even more sales volume to break even.  Well, I'm personally
of the opinion that we can generate the demand; if you think DEC has introduced
a lot of products over the past year, wait until you see what is delivered
in the next year.  One thing is certain, Alpha systems are going to roll
out much, much, much faster than VAX systems did.  And CPU architecture
and products is only one area that will see significant new products.

mulp	These opinions are those of a person who has a lot of faith, and stock,
	in DEC.  Many people look to me for advise and wisdom, but I don't
	recommend that you emulate my actions as I have demonstrated that
	I neither give myself good counsel, nor follow my own good advice.
	I knew I shouldn't have bought that house six years ago....
From: havemann_l@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: mystery modem card
Date: 27 Jul 92 15:26:27 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.dec
Distribution: comp,vmsnet
Organization: Lee Havemann, HSH Associates

In article <ROCKER.92Jul25023256@csa.bu.edu>, rocker@csa.bu.edu (The Long Haired One) writes:
> 
> I've got a card I need to be identified. I know its a type of DEC modem
> from long ago. Its mint condition and is on a card, seemingly an internal
> version or maybe a rack version. Can someone tell me more?
> 
> mainly I would like to know what it is, so I can figure out what it is
> worth to sell.
> 
> here's the relevant numbers I can find on it...
> 
> DF03-R
> C5000 5014854D
> 
> I beleive a DF03 is like a 300bps or 1200bps modem.
> 
> anyone know?
> thankx for any info in advance
> 
> -Rocker

The only thing I found is :
The DF03-AA 300/1200 bps modem 212A, EIA
DF03-RA - Replaced by DF112-AM Was DF03 in DF100 rack (C5000) - used in 
DF100-DT,-RM
or:
DF03-RC Replaced by the DF112-AM was DF03-RA+M7177 autocall modem

In other words, real slow, kinda useless.
-- 

 Lee Havemann, Sys_op    HSH Associates          (201) 838-3330 
 Havemann_l@spcvxa.spc.edu      -      Havemann_l@spcvxa.bitnet
 "Any opinions expressed are not necessarily those of anyone else, 
  including myself."
From: dormitze@vssad.enet.dec.com (Paul Dormitzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: VAX question (P0/P1 space)
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:24:48 GMT
Reply-To: dormitze@vssad.enet.dec.com (Paul Dormitzer)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <MOSS.92Jul26183952@ibis.cs.umass.edu>, moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) writes:
|>
|>3) Kernel space is the third quarter of the address space, as previously
|>noted, and is generally shared among all processes (but pages have different
|>protections in user, exec, supervisor, and kernel modes, so this is safe,
|>etc.)
|>

This is S0 space.

|>4) The fourth quarter of the address space is generally used for I/O devices
|>and could be called "I/O space", though I am not sure if that is an "official"
|>designation.
|>

Here you're confusing the high-address physical address space and virtual
address space.  The high-address physical addresses are indeed I/O space, but
the high-address virtual addresses are S1 space, which has been "reserved for
future expansion" in most VAX implementations, and was finally defined as an
extension of S0 space to double the system vitrual address space in the newest
VAX implementations.

As a side note, not all operating systems use the virtual address regions the
same way.  VAXELN uses an interesting partition of the three available
address spaces.  S0 is shared by all jobs in the system, P1 is shared by all
processes in a job (but not between jobs), and P0 is private to each process.

Paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: sergio@portal.vpharm.com (Sergio Rotstein)
Subject: looking for RRD42 drivers.
Organization: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:55:31 GMT

I don't know how many times this question must have been posted in this
newsgroup but here goes: Does anybody know of a public domain CD-ROM driver
to play music CD's from the DEC-RRD42 drive? Unfortunately, when our drive
was shipped with a VAX 4000 model 60, they didn't send us the test CD nor
the instruction manual. I think the test CD may have had the software I
need, but since I didn't get it, I'm not sure. Any info will be welcome.
Please answer to my private address: sergio@portal.vpharm.com, since
I'm not subscribed to this newsgroup. I will later post a summary of the
replies. Thanks very much in advance.


Sergio H. Rotstein. 

-- 

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 Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated                    sergio@vpharm.com
From: ecldco@ultb.isc.rit.edu (E.C. Loyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Info on third party suppliers
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:21:40 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Originator: ecldco@ultb

I'm looking for information on a subscription to a trade rag that I don't
know the name of.  Basically, it's a giant advertisement for third party
vendors of DEC equipment comparable to what Computer Shopper is for PC
vendors.  If anyone has any info on such a beast (soneone once told me 
it goes for about a $100.00 per year subscription), please drop me a line.

-Eric

-- 
ECLDCO@RITVAX.bitnet       ECL6895@RITVAX.bitnet
ECLDCO@ultb.isc.rit.edu    ECL6895@ultb.isc.rit.edu
Eric Loyd's the name, Data Center Operations is the game.
Opinions and irrational outbursts are MY pride and joy.  Not my employer's.
From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Subject: VAXstation II for sale
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:28:42 GMT

                    VAXstation II AVAILABLE FOR SALE IMMEDIATELY

The following equipment is available for sale. Submit ANY OFFER to:

                                   Dr. Carl Friehe
                             Mechanical Engineering Dept
                          University of California, Irvine
                                  Irvine, CA 92717
                      TEL: (714) 856-5779   FAX: (714) 856-8585
            For technical information call Fred Velijanian (714) 856-4258
                                          or send email to fredv@uci.edu

* VAXstation II CPU (rackmounted version), order# SV-LV55H-EK
* Under 3rd party maintenance until 6/30/92. (It's turned off now)
* VR260-AA Monitor (19" monochrome), keyboard, mouse
* BA23A-AR Rack Mount Kit (Original BA123 enclosure also available)
* DEQNA Ethernet Controller, 16MB of memory (includes 8MB of Emulex LM08)
* TK50 tape drive and TQK controller - installed in the CPU box
* RD54 disk drive (150MB) - installed in the CPU box plus RQDX2 controller
* RD53 disk drive (70MB) - not currently installed
* Kennedy 9401 9-track tape drive + Emulex controller (rackmount) & cables
        - Emulex part number:  F03K94/Q
* CDC 9772 SMD disk drive (850MB) + Emulex controller (rackmount) & cables
        - Emulex part number  W3372/MV
* DSRVB-AA - DECserver 200 (Eight RS232 ports) - installed in the rack
* DELNI-AA - Installed in the rack plus an H4000
* Talaris 800 Laser Printer
* Printronix P300 Line Printer, various ASCII terminals (VT200 compatible)
* VMS 4.4 and Hardware Manual Sets

- Equipment to be sold as is, with no warranties.

- Buyer to pay shipping charges

- No software licenses are included



Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: MORE CARDS FOR SALE...
From: cwthomas@nrlvx1.nrl.navy.mil
Date: 24 Jul 92 17:36:08 -0400
Organization: NRL SPACE SYSTEMS DIVISION


	Hi;

	I forgot these cards ...

	Cards are "as is:. These cards were pulled from a working system 
	about a year ago. Buyer pays shipping.
	M7270 LSI11 CPU	10.00
	MDB MLSI LP11 LPV11? CLONE	15.00
	

	M7957 DZV11 ASYNCH MUX		15.00
	M8067	MSV11-PL MOS FOR QBUSS  25.00

	ALSO I HAVE A BOX OF FLOPPIES (RX50) THAT ARE MARKED DEC DIAGS
	FOR PDP11.	MAKE OFFER.
	10 TU58-K TAPE CARTRIGES (11/30 CONSOLE ETC.) I'LL TAKE 25.00 
	FOR 'EM.
	ANYWAY, EMAIL ME IF YOU ARE INTERESTED...

	THANKS;
	C.W. THOMAS

Xref: sparky comp.sys.dec:4177 alt.folklore.computers:11073
From: wd@pcsbst.pcs.com (wd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Cadmus or PCS info needed!
Date: 24 Jul 92 11:07:35 GMT
Organization: PCS Computer Systeme GmbH

gheim@eng.auburn.edu (Greg Heim) writes:


>I have a CPU for a Q-Bus apparently manufactured by a company called
>Cadmus around '85.  The company is supposedly now called PCS (a german
>company).  I would like to get information on my board, but don't know
>how to contact these people.  Anyone know anything about them or even
>what PCS stands for?  I would guess they were in Colorado but not
>really sure.  If _you_ have documentation, that would be even better.

[I answered by mail - this is for all the others. wd]

PCS = "PCS Computer Systems".

For contact, just post a message to alt.folklore.computers :-) or 
send mail to postmaster@pcsbst.pcs.com (or to me). 

And yes, this was on of our very first CPU boards, and yes, we do 
have information about it. 

Wolfgang

==================================================================
Name    : Wolfgang Denk                         (+49)-89-68004-288
Company : PCS GmbH, Pfaelzer-Wald-Str. 36,  8000 Munich,  Germany.
UUCP    : ..[pyramid ;uunet!unido]!pcsbst!wd  (PYRAMID PREFERRED!!)
DOMAIN  : wd@pcsbst.pcs.[ COM From rest of world; DE From Europe ]
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From: gezelter@rlgsc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: RSX-11M: ACP's: help...
Date: 29 Jul 92 10:48:00 GMT
Organization: Robert Gezelter Software Consultant, Flushing, NY

In article <1992Jul28.192202.19694@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, young@eg.ecn.purdue.edu (Mike Young) writes:
> 
> 	I'm Looking for documentation, examples, guidelines, etc. for writing
> and implementing ancillary control processors (ACP's) under RSX-11M-PLUS.
> The DEC documentation set appears to be suspiciously silent on the subject.
> They help you write device drivers, but don't say squat about ACPs.
> 	Any pointers to articles, other manuals, anonymous FTP sites :-),
> etc. would be gratefully appreciated.
> 
> 
>     |  Mike Young KA9HZE                |       young@ecn.purdue.edu    |
>     |  Purdue University EE Dept.       |       ...!pur-ee!young        |
>     |  W. Lafayette, IN  47907          |                               |
>     _____________________________________________________________________
-- 
Mike,
 
If you obtain an old copy of the DECUS RSX SIG Tapes, you should 
be able to find a copy of a document written by Ralph Stamerjohn 
on the internals of ACPs.
 
Sorry, but I extracted the file many years ago (I would offer to 
copy the hardcopy, but much of my library is packed because of an 
office move). 
 
I hope that the above is helpful. If I can be of further 
assistance, please let me know.
 
- Bob
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Mwm and two monitors on one DECstation 5000/120
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:02:57 GMT
Reply-To: gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten)
Distribution: na
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab

In article <1992Jul21.193658.16979@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, cfraizer@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Colin Fraizer) writes:
|> 
|> I recently received a 19" monochrome (mx) monitor and card which I've
|> added to my DECstation 5000/120 which already had a 16" color (cx) monitor
|> and card.  I want to be able to use both monitors with X and Mwm.
|> 
|> Both monitors successfully perform the diagnostics, but I am unable
|> to make Xws and/or Mwm work with the second monitor (slot 1).
|> Any suggestions?


You need to reconfigure the kernel for two frame buffers.  Either use
doconfig, or add another frame buffer to your configuration file
and rebuild your kernel.    You already have a line like:

	device          fb0     at ibus?        vector fbint

Just add another like:

	device          fb1     at ibus?        vector fbint

-joel
Xref: sparky comp.sys.dec:4109 comp.unix.ultrix:5789 comp.os.vms:12565
From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Subject: Optical Drives on DEC workstations
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.os.vms
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 21 Jul 92 05:00:02 GMT

I have experience with Pinnacle Micro optical drives (Sony based)
on a DECstation and a SPARCstation. Our favourite 3rd party 
vendor now sells a new drive from Maxoptics and recommends it
very strongly.

1. Does anyone have experience with the Maxoptics vs Sony?
   Apparently the former is faster and holds 1GB per platter vs 650MB for Sony.

2. I've heard that DEC sells an optical drive product, but know
   nothing about it. Can anyone enlighten me on this?

3. What other options for optical drives are there?

4. Are the media interchangable between these technologies?

5. What drive does HP resell?

6. Is there a drive that will work on both DECstations and 
   VAXstations? Can VMS read/write ISO 9660 standard disks?

Thanks for any help

Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "will do TCP/IP for food" Ranum)
Subject: Re: When does DEC's OSF come out for VAXen?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:11:50 GMT

>We have a VAX 6510.  Right now it's running VMS, but we were thinking
>about running UNIX on it.  We've heard conflicting reports about
>whether OSF will run on a VAX 6500 series or not.

	Everything I've heard says that OSF/1 is not planned for VAXen
in general.

	ULTRIX will continue to run and be supported for VAXen, and will
interoperate, with OSF/1 &c. So it's not like you need to convert them to
boat-anchors.

mjr.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,misc.forsale
From: rainer@spot.Colorado.EDU (Rainer Malzbender)
Subject: LSI-11 parts for sale
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:45:54 GMT


The following parts are probably obsolete for most people, but some poor
soul with a broken LSI may use them.

	M7270 CPU board
	M7944 Memory module

Make an offer.

-- 
Rainer Malzbender                               This sig has no slack since I'm
Post-doc, Physics                               using it all.
U. of Colorado, Boulder (303)492-1366           rainer@shelley.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: kbridge@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Doug Karl)
Subject: New Version of OSU KarlBridge available with SNMP and more filters
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:07:39 GMT

	    Add Security and Cleanup your network
	      by blocking those unwanted packets
			    with

		     The OSU KarlBridge

			Version 1.33

        (now with full SNMP support and more filters)

The OSU KarlBridge is a program, that runs on a  286 or 386 clone.
It provides a unique and inexpensive  Ethernet to  Ethernet bridge
that performs sophisticated protocol filtering.  The bridge can be
configured to filter packets based upon ANY Ethernet protocol such
as IP, IPX, DECNET, AppleTalk, and etc. In addition it will filter
packets based upon  IP address, IP network, IP subnet, and socket.
It will also  filter  packets  based upon  DECNET  address,  area,
Object number and Object name.  Also,  AppleTalk  packets  can be
filtered based upon server name,  printer name,  and/or zone name.

Some Examples:

  You can use  OSU KarlBridge as a standard medium performance MAC
  layer  Ethernet to Ethernet bridge with SNMP  (MIB II, EtherMIB,
  BridgeMIB & SNMP MIB).  You can assemble your own  IBM cloan and
  use the free software or  buy the  inexpensive pre-assembled and
  tested commercial version.

  You can configure  OSU KarlBridge  to restrict  IP  traffic from
  your public computer labs or  dial-in-lines to  IP addresses and
  subnets within your campus or enterprise wide network. This will
  prohibit  unauthenticated access to the your machines and/or the
  Internet in conformance with RFC 1173).

  You can  configure  OSU KarlBridge  to  keep  file  servers  and
  printers (Apple, Novell, Banyan, LanManager, etc.)  on  the same
  network from interacting with each other in undesirable ways.

Join thousands of people worldwide who are using the KarlBridge to
relieve some of their networking headaches. The  OSU KarlBridge is
the most flexible and easily configured bridge you have ever seen!
Get a copy, read the README file, run the configuration program on
your favorite PC, and let me know what you think.

The OSU KarlBridge can be obtained via anonymous ftp from:

    nisca.acs.ohio-state.edu, 128.146.1.7, in /pub/kbridge.

Please send e-mail to kbridge@osu.edu with questions and comments.

Doug Karl
Senior Computer Specialist
The Ohio State University
From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Subject: Re: What do I wish for?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:22:04 GMT
Distribution: na

In article <1992Jul29.103852.14043@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> goldberg@turing.toronto.edu (Jody Goldberg) writes:
>I have been given a blank cheque and told to get
>the biggest bestest Dec 5000 around with all the trimmings.
>
>What hardware and software do I want?
>
Wow, the possibilities are endless, is your account balance unlimited?
I assume you want a "workstation" rather than a "server". 

System:         DECstation 5000/240
Graphics board: TurboPXG+
Memory:         At least 32MB, 128MB preferred, but can go up to 480MB
Disk:           At least 1GB (from DEC or 3rd party)
Peripherals:    DAT or Exabyte, CDROM, Optical disk (from DEC or 3rd party)
Option:         Turbochannel expansion box with an extra SCSI card, a 
                video, sound or any other Turbochannel option.
                Also get a Prestoserve board.
Software: Most DEC software is free to universities. If you want to make
          use of the PXG board, get AVS which is not free. Also C++ is not free
          Subscribe to the CDROM consolidated software distribution service :-)

Upgrade:  Get a guaranteed upgrade price to Alpha and keep some of the
          money to pay for this at the end of the year.

Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix
From: ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento)
Subject: Re: Does Ultrix 4.2 support RW-optical disks
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
	<1992Jul20.213009.1264@coe.montana.edu>
Distribution: comp
Date: 26 Jul 92 10:42:25



In article <1992Jul20.213009.1264@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye 
Mathisen) writes:

>>>previous post deleted<<<


>> a)  The DEC RW optical works fine on my decstions.  I think it's a SONY 
>> drive.

 If we are talking about the RWZ01 then you are correct that it is a SONY 
 drive.

>> Speculation:

>> b)  Perhaps you need the SCSI CAM software, which is a part of Ultrix
>> 4.2C.

 I know that we ran it here in our lab under Ultrix v4.2A without CAM. And,
 in case anybody needs it, CAM is available under layered distribution for
 Ultrix v4.2A. You don't have to wait for Ultrix v4.2C.

>> -- 
>>  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


I hope that this helps.

				Thanx,
				  AJ


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From: IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Imaging Club")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Success stories of new Wang document imaging for VAX
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:27:16 GMT
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

For your information, this week's issue of Systems & Network
Integration has a big front page story on Wang's Open/image
document imaging software and some stories about recent
successful applications of it on the VAX.  If you would like
the text of the story as it relates to the VAX, please let
me know.

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com