30 Jul
2022
30 Jul
'22
7:04 p.m.
On 7/30/2022 8:01 PM, Jonathan Chapman via cctalk wrote:
Doug,
What an odd OS. Glad to see that someone else recognized it. Looked it
up on the internet and found a Wiki page giving a brief history. Now I
know more than before.
In my case I have something where the hardware is unique, the OS is
unique. A real honest to goodness dinosaur.
Bio-Rad built and labeled the CPU board, not cheaply either! Looks like
it used standard components for scsi control, floppy i/f. No graphics,
simple line drawing.
Doug
A few years ago I got it to power on and it runs
Unix variant, their
product name was Idris. I have 16 floppies (dated 1992) that came with
the system, but the hard disk has died.
Interesting! I have a Multibus system that
runs Idris, very little information seems to be around on it. Mine's a straight 68K.
What are the minimum requirements for BSD?
With an '030 you should be able to run NetBSD-CURRENT, slowly :P You would of course
have to write drivers for any unsupported hardware you need.
Thanks,
Jonathan