PLATFORM (census) OPERATING SYSTEM SUPPORT SUPPORT
LEVEL UNTIL
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PC Pentium (129) Windows NT/98/95 high
PC Pentium (44) Linux RedHat V6+ * high
MAC power PC, G3 (33) Mac OS 7.6+ high
SUN Sparc, Ultra (14) Solaris 2.5+ high
DEC Alpha (13) Digital Unix V4+ high
SGI (9) IRIX 6.2+ medium
IBM RS/6000 (7) AIX V4.1.4+ medium
TEK X-Terminals (18) TEK Xpress V8.x+ medium
DEC Alpha and VAX (6) VMS V5.5+ low DEC drops support
DEC Alpha (1) WinNT V3.5.1+ low DEC drops support
DEC MIPS (6) Ultrix V4.2A+ low < 1999
SUN Sparc (3) SunOS 4.1.3 low SUN drops support
NCD X-Terminals (3) NCDware low unknown
PC 486, Pentium (?) WfWG 3.11 + DOS 6.x low only for interface with
specialized hardware, when
upgrades are not possible
HP (0) HP Unix none
NeXTStation (7) NeXTStep V3+ none
PC 486, Pentium (?) other PC-Unix * none
PC <486 any none
MAC 68K any none
Dumb Terminals none
Printers:
HP networked postscript high
- most varieties (50)
All others (3+) contact staff about support status
Network switches, hubs and routers high all must be approved by
PA computing staff
* Note: At this time, we are only supporting RedHat Lunux V6+ on the PC
Pentium platform. All other versions of PC Unix are not supported. This
includes Slackware, FreeBSD, Debian, OpenStep, NextStep on Intel, Solaris
on Intel and older versions of RedHat Linux.There are some older machines that are currently receiving support. It is anticipated that they will be upgraded or replaced over time.
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