Where is RISC ULTRIX 4.0?

[Roland Schemers III]

In article <3424 at usceast.UUCP> phil at usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (Phil Moore) writes:
>
>The DEC 5000 server finally arrived today (28 Aug) with ULTRIX 3.1D/ UWS 2.2D 
>tapes. Why not ULTRIX 4.0? The local DEC office said that documentation 
>was pending for 4.0 and it is due for release Oct 1.
>
>We have been waiting patiently for 4.0 for our 3100. We'd like to 
>do a clean install on the 3100's, 20 dec2100's and the server. 
>
>I know RISC ULTRIX/UWS 4.0 is out there. How and when do we get it?
>

I wish I could help you! We were in the same boat about two weeks ago,
then we started getting  in about 2 completes sets of 4.0 every other
day! We now have at least 10 sets for RISC, and 3-4 sets for VAX!

I must say 4.0 seems fairly nice so far. I have installed it on 
a VAXstation 3100, DECsystem 5000, 2 DECstation 5000, DECsystem 5820,
and 8 DECstation 3100's. Although the 5820 with two processors screams,
the DECstation 5000 is probably nicer if you don't need/use both cpu's
at once.

Here is a simple benchmark of compiling a String library, using AT&T's C++ 2.0
translator on various platforms. The library consisted of 36 different C++
files which were placed in a library using ar. The total size is 2600 lines.


5000  57.6u  32.6s 3:32 42% 496+627k 119+4042io 1310pf+0w
5820 119.7u 118.7s 5:36 70% 172+215k  72+4042io 1239pf+0w
6310 265.5u  81.8s 8:24 68% 237+433k 634+2953io  621pf+0w

The 6310 is still running Ultrix 3.1, and the other two are running 4.0.

Roland
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Roland J. Schemers III                              Systems Programmer 
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