Hello,
2 weeks ago we had a information DAY form Digital( group support
open system).
Here are the announcements form digital for Digital UNIX (OSF) 4.0
1/ Hardware:
New machines with more PCI plug-in possibilities
Today release EFT : need to wait for official release to obtain
a list of new supported drivers.
2/ New technologies:
- device naming
- dynamic device recognition
- standard conformity
- New graphics tools for managment
3/ Operating system on 2 cd
- Standalone environment with all tools of basic system
- complete graphic instal on working station
4/ kernel
- The kernel can be static or dynamically loaded at boot time
- sysconfigtab contain hardware options.
- No more "not binary" files in /sys/conf/files
- Dynamic kernel in option
in this case no more /vmunix , osf_boot read sysconfigtab
- better support of 'out digital/third part' drivers
- less files et disk spaces for it.
1210 files/46MB --> 190 files/17mb
Modules notions ( ex: ufs.mod)
5/ LSM
Number max of volum/plexes: 4091
New tools for it: volsave/volrestore
LVM disappear !!! (out !!!)
6/ ADVS
- Best effort for this product
( better traitment of : hardware errors, smp performance,
msfsck, .....)
- Graphic integration ( CDE.. remote managment)
7/ UFS-NFS
- NFS client code parallelisation.
- TCP supported for large networks ( wan..)
- ACL (access control language supported)
8/ C language et compile
- DEC C become C by default
- C is alwaysa part of BASIC system ( It will change in future ???)
(personnal appreciation: a.valeix
It won't change until we need to compile the KERNEL..isnt'it? )
9/Decthreads:
- adjustment for conformity ( 1003.1c)
asynch signals given to all thread ( main tread before 4.0)
-synch signals ( One handler by process)
10/ LADEBUG include in basic system
11/ DHCP
- extension of bootp protocol
- graphic config interface
12/ SLIP - PPP
- SLIP best effort:
automatic number delivering
user slip - login shell=slconfig
- PPP best effort
options negociation.
security ( authentification)
daemon: /usr/sbin/pppd
13 /network: routing
routed: rip v1
ogated: rip v1,egp v1, hello
gated 3.5
rip v1/2
bgp v2/3/4
egp v2
hello
ospf v2
14 / Ip multicast routing
host group on D class:
(224.0.0.0 to 239.255.255.255)
- possibilty to join or leave an "host group"
tools:
mrouted, mrinfo, mtrace
15/ LAT
Driver LAT dynamicaly loaded
16/ MIME ( used by dtmail)
17/
-Netscape on basic system
- tool : unix to dos
- bootable pack ( bandes in french)
I hop these help you !!!
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Fax : 40 . 18 . 27 . 27 Unite d'Exploitation - Division Logistique
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Received on Tue Feb 13 1996 - 09:12:17 NZDT