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Thu Sep 17 15:36:21 1981
Re: Perkin Elmer running Unix
>From decvax!duke!unc!smb@Berkeley Thu Sep 17 15:32:40 1981
In-real-life: Steven M. Bellovin
Location: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
I had an opportunity to run some tests on a Perkin-Elmer UNIX system a
few months ago, and was rather pleased by it. The Perkin-Elmer UNIX is
very much a pure V7 -- the Wollongong Group was very careful not to
make any "improvements". Not that UNIX can't be improved -- but that's
a totally different problem. The biggest complaint I had about the
system was that the stack was allocated at link time and defaulted to
4K . And the symptoms of having too small a stack were confusing at
best....
About its I/O bandwidth -- yes, it's excellent, but remember that you
need to have several fast controllers to really use it. And there was
a curious problem about input characters being lost; I don't know if it
was a KL11-like interface or the incredibly bad feel on the terminal
keyboards -- I'm quite willing to believe it never really sent the
characters I hit.
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