Asri-unix.421 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!obrien@RAND-UNIX Mon Jan 4 19:42:37 1982 Re: 2.8 from a TS-11; 4.1 and TU58 There's a huge fight currently going on concerning the TU-58. DEC is apparently in the process of designing a method to upgrade all the TU-58's in the field to put in a new, less restrictive protocol (MRSP, for Modified RSP). Otherwise the thing's too hard to use, and in fact impossible under 4.1BSD. There's a driver, and if you contact me privately I'll tell you how to get it, but on our machine, at least, it's pretty useless. Don't bother beating on your salesman to get the FCO early. Until Maynard develops its Master Plan (and I think they plan to start with the 11/44's, since they've had the most trouble), your salesman will be completely unable to find out that the upcoming FCO even exists. However, if those of us with 750's could get together and forcefully point out to DEC that the TU-58 is a dandy software exchange mechanism (like the 780's floppy), maybe we can get something done. Our friends within DEC have done about all they can. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.