Software Release Notice

SRNOXl. 4U MaT'ch g, 1981

1. IDENTIFICATION OF NEW RELEASE

Onyx Systems, Incorporated

ONIX Release 1.4--UpgT'ade fT'om a previous release

Tape Identification:

~. REASON FOR REVISION

A. Sof tware chan 9 es.

ONYX SYSTEMS, Inc. 3/2/81 ONIX UPGRADE TAPE FROM RELEASES AFTER 1.0 TO RELEASE 1.4 ** LICENSED USE ONLY **

To accomoddte new prom in Z800a processor board.

Two tape initial distribution system.

B. Hardware chan 9 es.

Changes to the con~iguration of the CPU card to improve electrical noise immunitYI providing greater reliabil-i t .J.

Modification to the communications port liD processor allows for fast~r thru-put. This modification required a cOT'resp~ndin~ change in the ONIX kernel.

C. New library support capabilities.

This versiori of the ONIX operating system has new libraries which provide floating point library support for language product compilers.

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~. ITEMS OF WHICH TO BE AWARE

A.

B.

C.

The structure or the distributed portion UNIX(tm) file system must not be modified. software upgrades are bas~d on the structure current distributed file system.

The C Compiler (ItZCC") software packagei it release.

is available as a is not included in

or the Future

of! the

separate the ONIX

This release has floating point language product compilers ONLY. floating point utilities.

library support for It does NOT have UNIX

D. The on-line manual pages may differ from those supplied in the UNIX Programmer's Manual. These files are located under /usr/man. The command to print these files is If man CitemJII

UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.

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!. PROCEDURE FOR UPGRApING THE ONIX ENVIRONMENT FROM & PRE-VIOUS RELE,o.SE

1. Upgrade the ONIX files by inserting the upgrade tape and logging in as "root u .

2. enter:

# cd I # tar x v3

3. enter:

# sync 'CCR:> # kill -1 1 to the query. 6. At this point you nee~ to bootstrap the system by

en~ering a , then enter:

# d~te YYMMDDhhmm

to set date and time

: D

to enter the multi-user mode. The console will display the ONIX system promptl and is now booted and ready for use.

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2. PROCEDVRF FOR RECREATING THE ONIX ENVIRONMENT

It is unlikely you will have to recreate your system from tape. However, if you find it necessary to do so fol-low the instructions detailed in the Software Release Notice you initially received with your system. Then execute the upgrade instructions detailed in this document on page 3.

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~. COMMANDS AVAILABLE WITH RELEASE 1.1

Allor the commands listed in the UNIX Programmer's Manual, Volume 1 are released under ONIX except Tor the Tol-l oUJi ng:

TO BE RELEASED IN THE FUTURE

ac a\l.lk graph iostat lint lookbib noh-up plot prof pubindex refer sa aceton spline units uucp uulog uux

WILL NOT BE CONVERTED DUE TO MACHINE INCOMPATIBILITY

as (PDP11 version) bas factor lookall mkcon-r prime roff tp vpr

The following utilities are supplied by the ONIX operating sqstem in addition to those supplied by UNIX.

tension openup as (Z8000(tm) veT's~on)

Z8000 is a trademark of Zi logl Inc.

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The following standalone utilities are supplied with the ONIX operating system.

ab Ie',

boot checksec clrstat cpres dd format getspare

getsta't; icheck mkfs recreate restor spare

The following language products will be or are avail-

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE WILL BE AVAILABLE

Ryan McFarland COBOL UCSD PASCAL ICC

'r77 pee

All of the subroutines listed in the UNIX Programmer's Manual, Volume 1 are released under ONIX 1.4 except for the following:

liby Tor yacc libdbm all plot libs

The following system calls are not implemented under ONIX:

lock (lock process in memory) phys (allocate physi~al memory in process)

The following system calls have been added under ONIX:

locking brkpt ugrow