[rescue] IRIX software question

[Chris Petersen]

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:40:31AM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:46:38AM -0400, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > 
> > Now, uncommon is the 4DDN 5.3 that I've got sitting at home.  DECNet for
> > IRIX, shudder...We used to run that "back in the day" to keep our SGIs
> > hooked up to our OpenVMS Alpha 1.5 Alphas and VMS 5.5-2 VS3100s...Then we
> 
> that's for IRIX 5.3 though right?  if that would work with 6.5 i would be
> happy.  DECnet is neat!!
> 

Yep.  I *might* have a copy for 6.2, but I don't think we ever had a version
for 6.5.  I'll have to check :)

> > hit OpenVMS Alpha 6.2 and "discovered" the joys of UCX...
> 
> i don't know if you use VMS anymore, but Multinet kicks the crud out of UCX
> in stability and performance. :)
> 

Yeah, without a doubt.  But we were a capital-D DEC shop, so we did it by
the book :)  Even UCX was better than ftp several gigs of CAD files when we
finally did migrate from VMS to OSF/1 back in '94-95...

Chris

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