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Subject: 4.32: PINT -- SCSI scanner software

From: Kenneth Stailey

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Subject: 4.33: Pager/Paging software
There is information on Paging, Paging programs and listing of the

Archive sites to download at the web site:

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HylaFAX (see 4.22) supports sending messages to alphanumeric pagers.
Commercially there is: AlphaPage(r) MD2001 from Information Radio

Technology, Inc. in Cleveland, OH.

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Subject: 4.34: JAVA Development Kit

From: Curt Finch

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Subject: 4.35: Sendmail

If you want to use SRC to start and stop BSD sendmail, do the following

after installing it:

chssys -s sendmail -S -n 15 -f 9 -a -d99.100
This tells SRC that sendmail may be stopped with signals 15 and 9. It also

arranges for sendmail not to daemonize itself, since it will run under SRC.

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Subject: 5.00: Third party products

[ Ed.: Entries in this section are edited to prevent them from looking

like advertising. Prices given may be obsolete. Companies mentioned

are for reference only and are not endorsed in any fashion. ]
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Subject: *5.01: Non-IBM AIX hosts.
Bull manufactures and sells AIX systems. To

find a distributor in your country, check the web page at

and/or

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Other vendors and manufactures include Motorola, Harris, General

Automation and Apple.

Kenetics Technology Inc.

35 Campus Drive

Edison NJ 08837

Contact : Brian Walsh

Phone - 908-805-0998

Fax - 908-346-1288

Manufactures a Power PC based RS-6000 clone that runs AIX versions

3.2.5 and 4.1.4.

A typical configuration with a 100 MHz Power PC 601 and 32 MB RAM, and 2

GB Hard drive, monitor, keyboard and networking is about $4995.00

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Subject: 5.02: Disk/Tape/SCSI

From: anonymous

- Most SCSI disk drives work (IBM resells Maxtor, tested Wren 6&7 myself);

use osdisk when configuring (other SCSI disk).

- Exabyte: Unfortunately only the ones IBM sells are working.

A few other tape drives will work;

use ostape when configuring (other SCSI tape).
- STK 3480 "Summit": Works with Microcode Version 5.2b

>From: [e-mail] (John Bell)

In summary, third party tape drives work fine with the RS/6000 unless

you want to boot from them. This is because IBM drives have 'extended

tape marks', which IBM claims are needed because the standard marks

between files stored on the 8mm tape are unreliable. These extended

marks are used when building boot tapes, so when the RS/6000 boots, it

searches for an IBM tape drive and refuses to boot without it.

>From: [e-mail] (John Rogers)
On booting with non-IBM SCSI tape drives: I haven't tried it myself but

someone offered:

Turn machine on with key in secure position.

Wait until LED shows 200 and 8mm tape has stopped loading.

Turn key to service position.

>From: [e-mail] (Andrew Mel'cuk)

The IBM DAT is cheap and works. If you get all the patches beforehand

(U407435, U410140) and remember to buy special "Media Recognition

System" tapes (Maxell, available from APS 800.443.4461 or IBM #21F8758)

the drive can even be a pleasure to use. You can also flip a DIP switch

on the drive to enable using any computer grade DAT tapes (read the

hardware service manual).

Other DAT drives also work. I have tried the Archive Python (works) and

experimented extensively with the Archive TurboDAT. The TurboDAT is a

very fast compression unit, is not finicky with tapes and doesn't

require the many patches that the IBM 7206 does. Works fine with the

base AIX 3.2 'ost' driver.

>From: [e-mail] (Daniel Packman)

>>You can boot off of several different brands of non-IBM Exabytes.

>>At least TTI and Contemporary Cybernetics have done rather complete

>>jobs of emulating genuine IBM products.
A model that has worked for us from early AIX 3.1 through 3.2 is a TTI

CTS 8210. This is the old low density drive. The newer 8510 is dual

density (2.2gig and 5gig). Twelve dip switches on the back control the

SCSI address and set up the emulation mode. These drives have a very

useful set of lights for read-outs (eg, soft error rate, tape remaining,

tape motion, etc.).

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Subject: 5.03: Memory
Nordisk Computer Services (Portland 503-598-0111, Seattle

206-242-7777) is reputed to have memory for use on AIX platforms.

5xx machines have 8 memory slots, 3x0s have 2, and 3x5s have only one.

You need to add memory in pairs for the 5xx machines excepting the 520.

RS/6000 Models 220, 230 and 250 can use "PS/2" style SIMM memory. All

have 8 SIMM sockets. 60ns or better is needed for the 250, 70ns

should be OK in the 220 and 230. The 220 and 230 are limited to 64MB

of memory, the 250 is limited to 256MB.

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Subject: 5.04: Others

From: anonymous

IBM RISC System/6000 Interface Products
National Instruments Corporation markets a family of instrumentation

interface products for the IBM RISC System/6000 workstation family. The

interface family consists of three products that give the RISC

System/6000 connectivity to the standards of VMEbus, VXIbus and GPIB.

For more information, contact National Instruments Corporation,

512-794-0100 or 1-800-433-3488.

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Subject: 5.05: C++ compilers
Several C++ compilers are available. You can choose from Glockenspiel,

Greenhills, IBM's xlC (sold seperately :), and GNU's g++. Glockenspiel

may now be part of Computer Associates. Comeau Computing

(718-945-0009) offers Comeau C++ 3.0 with Templates. For a full

development environment there's ObjectCenter's C++ (formerly Saber

C++).
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Subject: 5.06: Memory leak detectors
IBM's xlC comes with a product called the HeapView debugger that can

trace memory problems in C and C++ code.

SENTINEL has full memory access debugging capabilities including detection

of memory leaks. Contact [e-mail] [phone] or [phone].

Insight from ParaSoft [phone].

There is also a debug_malloc posted in one of the comp.sources groups.

A shareware dmalloc is available. Details at