23 Feb
2006
23 Feb
'06
10:27 a.m.
On 2/22/06, compoobah at valleyimplants.com <compoobah at valleyimplants.com>
wrote:
Oh, VMS! What else? :?)
I would be most
interested in one, but it's over a decade since I last
even /saw/ a VAXstation. I've no idea how to choose the most powerful
out of that lot!
It depends what you want to run on them, too. The /76 won't run Ultrix, and mine is a bit flakey
with NetBSD (haven't managed to get it completely installed with either 2.0 or 3.0
without crashes and weirdness). VMS runs great, though. (I have v7.2 on mine, the only
problem with the hobbyist distro is that the 5.0 UCX on the Hobbyist V2 CD doesn't
properly do Telnet. Don't know how well 7.3 works on VS3100 with 16 MB).
Argh. I have hobbyist CDs but not sure what version - something pretty
recent, though. There's not even any point *asking* if they'd take
SIMMs or any civilised form of RAM, is there?
The /76 also is the smaller case (like the /30). The
plus with a Unix is that you can use > 1 GB disks with a < 1GB root partition O.K. I
have a 2 GB drive running VMS with crossed fingers, supposedly there is a way to turn off
crash dumps but I haven't found it yet.
The VS3100 has a DA15M connector for video that looks a bit like a ERGO but is not,
you'll need an adaptor at least. Base 3100/76 video is B&W unless you have the SPX
option. You also need a LKA-type keyboard and VX-type mouse. SW3 can be flipped to put the
console on the printer port, though. Remember it has the bizarre SCSI connector on the
back (SUN SL-CD/XM-4101 drives work for install, though, and are easy to move around).
Nice little boxes, though.
All those caveats aside, you mean? 8?/
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