28 Feb
1998
28 Feb
'98
7:39 a.m.
Joe wrote:
Ward,
I went to an auction at KSC this morning and bought a complete Commodore
Pet computer system. They had a bunch of AT&Ts there, 3B2/400s and
3B2/600s. Should I have gotten those? I know who has them.
The 3B2 series are good solid Unix boxen and that's all they are. The
Western Electric 32xxx CPUs are _great_ devices for building telephone
switching systems, but for real computing they are flat-out dogs -- OK
for low-load database engines at best. But they are the machine that
were used to build System V Unix. As I said, they are solid, and there
are more Internet hosts built on them than many folks suspect. When I
have room, I will be adding a 3B2 or two to my collection. They aren't
related to the 3B1 at all except for the Death Star logo, but they are
definitely a big part of history second only to the DEC stuff for us
Unix junkies.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.