The 15JAN96
release of AIPS is no longer available,
please refer instead to the latest version.
For the record, here are the systems 15JAN96
was
install-tested on, and their DDT results:
15JUL95
test
installation.
In addition, one test on a Sparc, SunOS 5.4, was performed using binaries.
Check the list of patches to see
what else you should have done after installing this release. If you
prefer plain
text, you can have that too. Also see our overall patch information page. As this
information is frequently updated, please check back here frequently to
make sure your installation has the important bug fixes. The patches will
always be presented here first, along with announcements on the bananas
mailing list and the alt.sci.astro.aips
usenet
Newsgroup.
There were, as usual, many improvements. For a complete description, refer to the 15JAN96 AIPSLetter (ps, 155952 bytes).
15JAN96
directory has been removed to make room for
the source and binaries for 15OCT96
.
Here are the distribution statistics broken down by architecture and more, for the early part of the release. These figures are through November 4, 1996 (corrected November 21), and are courtesy of Ernie Allen.
95 FTP SOURCE 35 FTP SOLARIS BINARY 17 FTP LINUX BINARY (7 ELF, 10 a.out) 16 FTP SUN4 BINARY 7 FTP ALPHA BINARY 7 FTP IBM BINARY 6 FTP HP BINARY 3 FTP SGI BINARY TOTAL FTP DISTRIBUTION= 186 SITES RECEIVED= 171
3 8MM SOURCE 4 4MM SOURCE 1 QIC source 1 FLOPPY source Arch 8mm 4mm Total ------------------------------------ SOL 5 4 9 LINUX 6 3 9 (8mm: 2 each ELF, a.out; 4mm: a.out) SUN4 4 0 4 SGI 4 0 4 ALPHA 1 2 3 HP 0 1 1 4MM TAPE= 14 8MM TAPE= 23 QIC TAPE= 1 FLPY DISK= 1 TOTAL MAGNETIC MEDIA DISTRIBUTION= 39 GRAND TOTAL DISTRIBUTION= 225 SITES SHIPPED= 30 GRAND TOTAL SITES= 201
201 Non-NRAO sites, (101 have registered) received one or more flavors of
15JAN96
AIPS and indicate they will run as follows:
ARCHITECTURE NUMBER ---------------------------------- SOLARIS 431 SUN4 183 DEC-ALPHA 70 INTEL-LINUX 61 (3 ELF) SGI-IRIX 42 IBM-AIX 27 * HP-UX 26 ULTRIX 4 CONVEX 1 ------- TOTAL 845 * Large increase in IBM's over older reports (12) due to registrations of 10 and 5 respectively at two sites (neither in the US).