17 Aug
2006
17 Aug
'06
7:36 p.m.
On 8/18/06, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
And why be stuck in the UNIX world? Hell, once a
machine is running a
Unix variant, they all start to look like every kidz Linux machine...
Exactly. I'm a Unix professional by day, and if on my free time
playing with classic computers I'm still doing *nix, I'd be bored to
death. I'll be further frustrated because a lot of the modern commands
that I'm used to doesn't exist in 20+ year old *nix variants (nah, I'm
not talking about Gnome/X11/KDE, more to stuff like lvm, ssh, etc.).
This is all moot unless you're talking about the original Unix kernel
from Ken Thompsom written in PDP7 assembler (circa
August 1969)! :-)
Perhaps the only interesting (more feasible) Unix variant that I'd
ever run on a classic computer is probably the original V6 or V7 on a
11/40 (if I ever lay my grubby little fingers on one of those babies,
espcially the disks!).