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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!agate!CS.Berkeley.EDU!eric From: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: death of ucbvax Date: 19 Aug 1994 14:06:49 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Mammoth Project Lines: 28 Sender: eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Allman) Distribution: world Message-ID: <332e9p$h1j@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU NNTP-Posting-Host: mastodon.cs.berkeley.edu Venerable old ucbvax, once a cross-roads of the network, will be turned off for the last time on Friday, 19 August at 2:00pm PDT (21:00 GMT). Should you recall the glory days of ucbvax, you might allow for a minute of net-silence as we shut it down. (If anyone happens to be in a position to monitor any backbones, please let me know if usage dips.) There will be a small, private gathering as the circuit breaker is thrown. To add insult to injury, the hardware will be salvaged by the Police Department to run card-key systems -- after conversion to VMS. Sigh. Ucbvax, formerly a major UUCP and news site, had fallen on hard times as the world moved past MicroVAXen. In recent years, it had essentially no support, still running an out of date version of BSD on very slow and small disks. It valiantly continued in its task even as the world moved on to SuperScalar RISCs. The Computer Science Division finally moved into a new building, leaving ucbvax alone in a cold, dark machine room. Ucbvax immediately developed disk hiccups in the swap area. We are keeping it on life support until the ceremony. Please feel free to redistribute this message to anyone who might be interested. UCBVAX R.I.P. August 19, 1994