4 Jun
2009
4 Jun
'09
2:19 p.m.
At 9:52 AM -0400 6/4/09, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
why would you ruin a perfectly good PDP with something
as awful as BSD?
what's the point?
is there any advantage to ruining such wonderful hardware rather than running
BSD say on an old 286 or something?
it completely loses it's uniqueness, no special software, never
seeing those wonderful command lines
unique look and feel, everything that makes the machine special.
might as well run a vanilla BSD box, no one would know the difference.
except some of the commands that show what it's running on, but big
whoop there.
so is there something special you can do that shows it's uniqueness?
I couldn't agree more, HOWEVER, there is the slight issue of TCP/IP
support. That would pretty much limit him to RT-11. Of course if
you put it on HECnet you can run pretty much anything except RT-11.
Personally my preference would be for RSTS/E or RSX-11M/M+.
My view is if you want to run UNIX on DEC hardware, either get a DEC
PC, or a DECstation (MIPS). I've run UNIX on Alpha, but mainly
because I had a spare, and was already running OpenVMS on several
Alpha's and VAXen. Having said that, one of these years I'd like to
get 2.11BSD installed on a Hard Drive for my /73 (I use removable
SCSI HD's).
Zane
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