Astolaf.24
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utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!cbosg!ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!sys
Fri Feb  5 17:48:22 1982
Hello world\n
A big hello to all intelligent life forms out there, and to all you others,
the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.

Saint Olaf College is now officially on USENET (or whatever it is to be
called).  We are lucky enough to have a purely academic computer center
(the administration keep to themselves on their system/38) where we hack
day and night (when not playing rogue).

site name:      stolaf
path:           ihnss!ihps3!stolaf
site rep:       Alan Hastings
address:        Academic Computer Center
               St. Olaf College
               Northfield, MN  55057

contacts:       hastings        Alan Hastings, G.U.R.U.
               sft             Steve Tarr, H.A.C.K.R.
               berger          Peter Berger, Academic Programmer
               lacroix         Les Lacroix, manager at Carleton College
               root or sys     general contact

uucp links:     ihps3, ihuxl, rose
               These sites poll us; we have no dialer...yet...

We run A news (where oh where is B news?) and receive news from ihuxl, soon
to be ihps3, and pass stuff on to rose (Rosemount Engineering, Inc).
We will probably have the U. of Minn. VAX polling us soon.  Stay tuned.
Carleton runs VMS and hopes to run EUNICE soon.  Les would like to
hear from anybody running UUCP under EUNICE.

Briefly, we have a medium 11/70 running combat-zone V7 (security hacks).
Other changes include nifty terminal driver to allow graphics tty line
disciplines, device independent graphics language implemented in C, F77,
F4P, and DEC BASIC+ (no mean feat).  2- and 3-d generalized plotting programs
with a really slick function compiler.

We are interested in communicating with anyone who has done work on the
tty driver, disk optimization (we have CDC-9766 drives w/ SI 9400 controller),
tricks to gain kernel data space, etc.

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