Aima.33 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!esquire!ima!johnl Wed Jan 20 23:56:04 1982 Vax 11/730 VM Unix I hear from reliable sources that Bill Joy got VMUNIX working on a 730 at DEC almost a year ago, long before VMS worked. It's also true that the 730 is really slow. Remember, it's physically the same size as an 11/04. It has no buffered data paths for the Unibus. The idea, I gather, was that it would be a relatively cheap node in a VAX network. I also heard rumors that the 730 has been cancelled because it's too slow, and also, DEC will sell you 750's at super cheap 730-like prices if you buy several and promise not to put more than one physical TTY line on each one (although network interfaces and Telnet are OK.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.