Asytekvax.113 NET.general utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sytek!sytekvax!sam Sat Aug 8 16:03:07 1981 Austin USENIX Conference Sumary For those who weren't able to attend the USENIX conference held in Áustin, Texas; perhaps some of the following will be of use (the UNIX/370 "rumor" in my last issue of unix-wizards prompted this note). I might note that I take responsibility for any errors in the material presented below. ========================================================================== Western Electric announced the following "new" products: 1st CPU Additional OEM Educational Product CPU CPU -------------------------------------------------------------------- UNIX/1100 $30K $10K $12K $400 (For UNIVAC 1100, runs under EXEC 8) UNIX/6000 $30K $10K $12K $400 (For Honneywell 6000, runs under GECOS) C/SEL $5K $2.5K $2.5K N/A C/Data General $5K $2.5K $2.5K N/A (Cross compiler, PDP-11 -> DG) C/8086 $5K $2.5K $2.5K N/A (Cross compiler, PDP-11 -> 8086) [Notes: N/A - Not/Applicable (WECO considers these packages tools and as such are not subject to an acadåmic discount); K = $1000] It was not clear what each compiler package included (i.e. assembler, loader). Later discussions indicate with Larry Iseley (sic?) of WECO indicate that the C/8086 package includes compiler, assembler, loader, debugger, and external+internal documentation (probably just the tour through the Ritchie compiler). UNIX 3.0 may be out by the 1st of the year, 4.0 not for a while (holding off to see what becomes of the anti-trust suit) Upgrade credit is likely to given for UNIX 3.0, if and when 4.0 is released. UNIX 3.0 is claimed to run on everything from an 11/23 to an 11/780. (That I've gotta see.) Their most current UNIX licensing figures were: LICENCEES Product Commercial Educational Government Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mini UNIX 6 98 5 104 V6 89 319 42 450 PWB 38 43 53 134 V7 78 176 18 272 32V 33 74 11 118 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 244 710 124 1078 INSTALLATIONS Product Commercial Educational Government Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mini UNIX 8 265 0 273 V6 141 775 123 1039 PWB 70 132 60 292 V7 86 423 22 531 32V 36 121 11 168 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 341 1716 216 2073 ========================================================================== DEC announced the following: PDP-11's under DEC maintenance may acquire a UNIX diagnostics system for use by field service people. [As always,] DEC is trying to get field service to be more responsive to UNIX users (they have UNIX courses for field service people, etc.) ========================================================================== BBN claims their C/70 is now as powerful, if not more, than an 11/70 due to microcode changes (I might temper this statement by adding that their claim is based on an evaluation of overall system comparison.) ========================================================================== George Gobel (at Purdue) is trying to unload a virtualy unused 11/44 which he has been using as a "UNIBUS teminator" for his 11/780 He has software which can be used to monitor the VAX in real time through a memory window (also debugging tools) -- all this stuff runs on the aforementioned 11/44 ========================================================================== sam leffler ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.