On 10/14/2012 02:55 AM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
Cameron Kaiser<spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
HP Apollo 715t/33 (425t)
Please don't
confuse. The linked picture shows a series 400 machine.
The 715 is an entirely different line of machines. The 700-series is
PA-RISC based, where the 400-series is m68k based.
Yes. I don't consider the 7xx line to be real Apollos and IIRC there's no
Domain release for them; they're just HPUX boxes with an Apollo brand
slapped on them.
A 425t is a real Apollo though and a rather nice machine IMHO (the earlier
ones just looked like big PC-a-like boxes and weren't particularly fast). I
don't think it'll run Domain/OS without a Domain keyboard plugged into it,
so you'd be stuck* with BSD if you don't have one.
* and it's perhaps questionable what the point is of running Domain/OS
unless you have more than one machine; IIRC all the good stuff revolved
around having a bunch of interconnected systems, and the features on a
single system were more quirky/annoying than anything.
There do seem to be far more Apollo systems around than there are Domain
keyboards - I don't know if that's how they shipped, or if they keyboards
have been ditched over the years because people mistake them for just
another PC keyboard. Probably the latter :-(
cheers
Jules