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- From: natalie@uts.amdahl.com (Natalie Jafari)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.large
- Subject: Re: Unix for 3090E and up
- Keywords: 3090 unix
- Message-ID: <f8kZ03qEc5C200@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 14:21:25 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.202551.11365@gov.on.ca> <1992Dec18.194229.25117@fujitsu.ca> <b5.m02B=2f=s01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
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- In article <b5.m02B=2f=s01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> daf00@da.amdahl.com (Dana A Freiburger) writes:
- >
- >Colin,
- >
- >UTS is not a 'shell' version Unix, but runs native on an
- >IBM XA (not 370) machine. Amdahl uses UTS internally with
- >600-800 users logged on at a time on a 4 processor machine.
- >Just adding a few facts to the discussion...
- >
- >
- >Dana
- >
-
- Amdahl has more than 11 years experience in the development of UNIX system
- solutions.
-
- In fact, the next release of UTS or UTS4 (General Availability = April 1993)
- is based on UNIX System Laboratories'(USL) SVR4.1 Enhanced Security(SVR4.1ES).
- UTS4 is a value added 370-architecture specific SVR4.1ES that has been enhanced
- to extend a standard compliant, open system operating system to the Enterprise
- environment. Amdahl has added approximately 5 million lines of code to provide
- value-added enhancements required by commercial, enterperise customers (in
- comparison to the 2 million lines of code shipped by USL).
-
- Some of the UTS4 value added features are MP kernel (that's right. UTS4
- provides symmetric multiprocessing support for configurations up to
- eight-way processors), config(1M), migration aid tools and backup/restore
- and many more commands and features.
-
- Amdahl's UTS Release 4 offers increased compliance to key open systems industry
- standards, including: AT&T SVID, Issue 3; the IEEE POSIX Part 1(P1003.1),
- System Application Program Interface(API); and, the X/OPEN Portability
- Guide, Issue 3 (XPG3), OSI(Government OSI Profile(GOSIP)), X/Windows V11R4,
- OSF Motif 1.1 GUI standards, etc.
-
- The following are some of the main features of UTS4:
-
- .Operating System enhancements in the following areas:
- 1- Virtual Memory Architecture
- 2- Mapped Files
- 3- Job Control
- 4- STREAMS-based character I/O system
- 5- Device-Kernel Interface
-
- .File System
-
- UTS4 has the following filessytems: Virtual File System(VFS), Amdahl's
- Extended File System(EFS), u4K (Amdahl's implementation of UNIX file system,
- enhanced to use a 4K block size to match the 370-XA page size) and
- ufs (BSD's fast file system).
-
- .networking (TCP/IP, etc)
- .Real Time Processing
- .User Interfaces
- .Enhanced Security
-
- Also, in the next release of UTS4(in 2 Quarter 1993)
- Amdahl will provide UltraNet and 4655(i.e. VCSHost, Async terminals, OSI WAN
- and BX.25), STK 4400 tape silo, X/Windows V11R5, Motif 1.2, ESCON, 6390 native,
- SNMP agent, Amdahl UniTree, VCS Fiber Support for 4655 Datakit, etc. etc.
-
-