12 Feb
2001
12 Feb
'01
6:34 a.m.
It's a
heavy and rather slow beast. I dumped about 30 of them
ten years ago.
I tried to sell mine, complete with docs for $15 at a Hamfest nearly 10
years ago and got no nibbles. This was before Linux hit it big.
The 68000 can be replaced with a 68010 for a
slight
pickup in performance.
That's nice to know. I have a few '010s (the VAX-BI COMBOARD used them).
I didn't assume it was a drop-in replacement due to the MOVEcc instruction
being now priv'ed (AmigaDOS 1.1 will croak if you upgrade the CPU without
running a TRAP patch (available in the olden days). The calc program was
the way to test the patch. If you Guru'ed, you weren't patched.
As I said, mine has Uniplus (w/boxed docs and media).
Fun. What kind of disc? SCSI? Am I right in remembering that the 7500
has SASI?
Nope... MFM ST506 stuff.
I'm sure by the time it was produced, the world had moved on.
Nah... the Perkin-Elmer/Concurrent managment wouldn't know a good
Unix computer if it bit them on the #$%^&*.
They had a clustered BSD network in house from the Univ of Erlangen in
Germany that would've killed Vax BSD of the same era. They never did
anything. System V -- consider it standard. They ran SysVR0 with
swapping and no pageing. When SVR2 and 3 and 4 came along they dropped
the mini's running Unix and claimed to do only Real-Time (OS/32) and
RTU (Masscomp's SysIII/BSD realtime Unix).
-ethan
Ah well... those were the days.
It's 20 years in computers (since starting at DEC) this week and I'm off out
of Lucent to a new job at .com at the end of the month.
Times keep changing quickly.
--Bill
month.
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