19 May
2001
19 May
'01
12:35 p.m.
Jarkko Teppo skrev:
Quoting Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se>se>:
> jarkko.teppo skrev:
> >http://www.tec.puv.fi/~s99137/kuvat/380takaa2.jpg
> >http://www.tec.puv.fi/~s99137/kuvat/380takaa.jpg
>
> >Then you have a 380. The machine in those crummy pictures has a DIO-I
> >expansion cab.
>
> So does mine, if that's the card with the ugly card-edge connector into
> which
> the additional LANCE board is plugged.
The expansion cab is the second cabinet with DIO-I
slots in it.
The processor card is DIO-II and the extra lance card is DIO-I.
At the moment I have 3 * DIO-II and 5 * DIO-I. I'm also thinking
about expanding the expander, although it might slow things down
due to shared interrupts. We'll see. There also exist DIO-II to
DIO-I converters, you might have one of those.
PCI runs on shared interrupts and seems fast enough to me.
> It's plugged straight in. Good for me.
Depends on if you have a lot of HP-IB disks. I have, I
want more :)
HPIB disks? Can't say that I've seen a single one in my entire life.
> Now, should I just run NetBSD or is HPUX any more
sufferable on the 380
> than
> on the 832?
Depends if you want to use it for anything useful or
not.
I really can't imagine either system doing anything useful, since I'm
essentially a UNIX hater, so that is of secondary importance. I just can't
deal with HP-UX 10.something on the 822, it's so dreadfully slow, and then
it's got binaries cluttered all over /etc for some very odd reason.
IMHO a 380 is one the best 300-series machine there is
(well, 385..)
But then all that would require is a new crystal, right?
It's fast, can take a lot of memory and if
you've got some kit it's
a joy to expand. I've had at one point 13 hard drives + a big bunch
of tape drives from 9-tracks to 9144/9145 + DATs. Dual framebuffers
are cool if you've got 'em and so on.
I'd suggest you give HP-UX a go and then install
NetBSD. You could try
one of the 4.3-reno=> (?) versions too.
I don't suppose HP have got any hobbyist programme?
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