sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash November 1993 Sun Technical Bulletin SunFLASH Vol 60 #14 December 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60.14 November 1993 Sun Technical Bulletin (STB) The STB "Table of Contents" and "Editor's Introduction" are posted to SunFlash so that customers who have a support contract are made aware of the contents of this execellent publication. 60.14.A STB Editor's Introduction Brief description of each of the major STB articles by the STB editor. 60.14.B November 1993 STB Contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This article describes the contents of the Sun Technical Bulletin (STB) for November, 1993. It is posted to SunFlash to make those customers who have a support contract aware that they should be receiving this excellent publication. Copies of the STB are sent to the people listed in your support contract. They have limited duplication rights (see notice included each month within the STB). Two sample STBs, in PostScript, are in draco.nova.edu:/pub/sunflash/1992 and in ftp.uu.net:systems/sun/sunflash/1992 185,395 stbaug92.ps.Z 171,958 stbjul92.ps.Z Each is about 100 pages. This article contains two parts: o Table Of Contents for March 1992 o STB Editor's Introduction The text and PostScript STBs are also included in the SunSolve CD ROM service (see sunflash 44.07 "SunSolve and Sun HelpDesk"). Note that second editions of SunSolve and Sun HelpDesk have begun shipping. You should install at least SunSolve - it's totally rad, dude! -johnj -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60.14.A Subject: STB Editor's Introduction Year: 1993 Month: November ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE -- This is the final issue of the Sun Technical Bulletin (STB) to be published in hardcopy form. From this point on, STB articles will be assembled in PostScript form on the SunSolve CD-ROM only. Since early in 1992, STB articles have been included on the SunSolve CD-ROM. This has proven to be a more timely and efficient medium to deliver technical articles and white papers to our customers. The quarterly delivery of CD-ROMs (which should soon be eight times yearly) brings STB information to customer sites more quickly than the bound paper version, which required considerable lead time for publication. Additionally, because STB articles are now readable on your workstation, subject and keyword searches may be done to find and retrieve information more quickly. All past STB articles (from December 1991 forward) are on the SunSolve CD-ROM in individual PostScript documents for easy retrieval, and all articles can be simultaneously searched for key words and strings by SearchTool. Articles can be viewed and printed by the MultiView display utility. We believe that you will find this method of packaging and delivering STB information to be a great improvement, and as always, as part of your support contract, you may duplicate any articles for use on covered systems without infringing copyright, as long as you route the articles internally only and do not reproduce them for resale. We appreciate the opportunity to continue to provide support for your Sun Microsystems environments. STB Overview ------------ This month's STB contains articles of general interest in the topics outlined below. ** UNIX "Introduction to INTERACTIVE UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2" is a technical white paper discussing SunSoft's operating environment for running and developing UNIX applications on i386/i486-based PCs. The paper begins with a description of the UNIX operating system and UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2. The main focus of the document is an overview of the INTERACTIVE UNIX product family, and a detailed discussion of the INTERACTIVE UNIX operating system, Version 3.0 (and above), and its optional extensions. ** Network "NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification" is a lengthy excerpt from the full protocol specification document, which specifies the NFS version 3 protocol and to describes the semantics of the protocol through annotation and description of intended implementation. The full document is available via anonymous ftp from various public servers, whose addresses are given in the excerpt's introduction. ** Hardware "SPARCclassic X X-Terminal Architecture" is a significant excerpt from a technical white paper from SMCC, discussing the architecture of their new X terminal product. Based on microSPARC, integrated ASIC technology for I/O, Ethernet, and graphics, the SPARCclassic X X-terminal defines a new level of integration and flexibility for dynamic environments where X-terminals are a logical choice. This article is for end users and network administrators who are considering integrating X-terminals in their overall computing environment. The document describes implementation from a hardware and software architecture perspective. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60.14.B Subject: November 1993 STB Contents Year: 1993 Month: November ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents -------- 1. STB Editor's Introduction 1-1 STB Overview 1-2 2. UNIX 2-1 Introduction to INTERACTIVE UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 2-1 The UNIX Operating System 2-1 UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 Features 2-2 The INTERACTIVE UNIX Product Family 2-3 INTERACTIVE UNIX Operating System 2-4 Ease of Use 2-4 Performance Optimization 2-5 Additional Functionality 2-6 Conformance to Standards 2-8 Internationalization 2-9 Documentation 2-9 Optional Extensions 2-9 Conclusion 2-14 3. Network 3-1 NFS: Network File System Version 3 Protocol Specification 3-1 Introduction 3-1 Scope of the NFS Version 3 Protocol 3-2 Useful terms 3-3 Remote Procedure Call 3-3 External Data Representation 3-4 Authentication and Permission Checking 3-5 Philosophy 3-6 Changes from the NFS version 2 protocol 3-9 RPC Information 3-12 Server Procedures 3-24 Implementation Issues 3-26 Bibliography 3-35 4. Hardware 4-1 SPARCclassic X X-Terminal Architecture 4-1 Introduction 4-1 The SPARCclassic X X-Terminal 4-3 Overview of the SPARCclassic X X-Terminal 4-5 Selecting an X-Terminal 4-9 Right Environments for the SPARCclassic X X-Terminal 4-10 SPARCclassic X X-Terminal Architecture 4-11 System Overview 4-12 Hardware Implementation 4-15 Software Overview 4-18 Software Components of the SPARCclassic X X-Terminal 4-24 Boot Host Software 4-33 SPARCclassic X X-Terminal Packaging 4-37 5. Software Release Versions 5-1 Current Sun Software Products and Release Versions 5-1 Operating Systems 5-1 Window Systems & Desktop Utilities 5-1 Connectivity Products 5-2 Software Development 5-3 Graphics Software and Other Products 5-4 System Management 5-4 Updated Sun Operating System Support Matrix 5-5 6. Notes & Comments 6-1 World Hotlines 6-1 Reporting Bugs 6-3 Submitting Software Bugs: United States and Canada 6-3 Submitting Software Bugs: Europe 6-4 Submitting Software Bugs: Intercon 6-8 Your STB Subscription 6-10 Index ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on draco.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au For last month's digest, send email to flashadm@sun.com with a Subject line of 59.00 For Gopher and WAIS access: sunsite.unc.edu. 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