Apur-ee.104 net.news,NET.news utzoo!duke!cincy!pur-ee!aef Wed Jun 17 23:20:37 1981 Pur-ee on Usenet ** 'Pur-ee' has joined the Usenet NewsNet. ** This is 'pur-ee', reachable via several routes, currently on the Usenet news network by way of 'duke!cincy!pur-ee'. Our system is operated by the Purdue Electrical Engineering Department, George Goble manager of the system, at West Lafayette, Indiana. This machine is a Vax 11/780 with 8 Mb of memory, three 300 Mb CDC disk drives, one 6250 BPI mag tape drive, and other peripherals. We have 6 Able DMAX's connected to our system at the present time providing 96 terminals, and support 30+ other ``pseudo'' terminals which come in over a network implemented using Dec DMC's to 2 PDP11/70s, 4 PDP11/45s, and one other Vax. We are running Berkeleys 4.1 BSD in production as modified by ourselves where necessary. Our system typically supports 50 to 60 users doing largely instructional programing although 70 or more users have often been logged in at the same time. Our main headaches come from having nearly 3000 online accounts at the present time. Within a few weeks our second VAX 11/780 will begin operation. We have one auto-dialer which currently only operates using Vadic 3400 operation, and daily call ucbvax, teklabs, and call other sites as necesary. We have a hardwired link to the Computer Science Department Vax 11/780 system as well. Our dial-in hardware currently supports both Vadic 3400 and Bell 103 operation. Other UNIX sites at Purdue (some of which will be joining the net soon) include the CS Dept Vax 11/780 and the Physics Dept 11/44. The CS Dept is known as ``purdue'' and the Physics Dept is known as ``pur-phy''. Several contacts here include myself, Art Feather (aef), George Goble (ghg), and Peter Miller (pete). We can be contacted via: UNIX mail: teklabs!pur-ee! ucbvax!pur-ee! decvax!pur-ee! duke!cincy!pur-ee! among others... USPS mail: Purdue University Electrical Engineering Dept West Lafayette, IN 47907 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.