6 Apr
2005
6 Apr
'05
12:32 p.m.
>>>> "Dan" == Dan Williams
<williams.dan at gmail.com> writes:
Dan> But unless you get an old microvax running ultrix, vaxen run
Dan> better with vms. If you want to run unix cheaply you are better
Dan> off with an older Sun or HP machine, you can get these cheap
Dan> (less then 100) from ebay. Also you get the choice of running
Dan> *bsd as well. You can also get sgi machines cheaply but the os
Dan> is harder to come by.
You can run 2BSD on a PDP11, or 4BSD on a VAX. Sure, Sun will do too,
but DEC machines were the original targets for the BSD systems, I
believe -- and certainly either should work well.
paul