27 Sep
2005
27 Sep
'05
9:32 a.m.
All,
On 9/27/05, Tim Riker <Tim at rikers.org> wrote:
They are not that big, are they? Are they the same as
these systems?
http://www.schrotthal.de/apollo/
They look like normal workstations. There was just someone on the list
asking for oddball workstations, no?
Yes. These are the more recent HP - Apollo workstations. The older
Apollo workstations people are interested in are the workstations
prior to the DN3000. Although even the DN3000's are becoming scarce
now.
Looks like they will run pa-risc Linux. And many came
with color
1024x768 displays.
The 400's are 68040 (or was it 68050) based. They will run NetBSD,
DomainOS and probably some version of HPUX. I ran one as a glorified
X-Term for a couple of years using OpenBSD as the underlying OS.
Seemed to work quite well but X tunnelled through ssh was rather
painful!
AFAIK the 700's are PA Risk. I seem to remember a friend installing
NextSTEP on one at some stage in the past. I guess there is also a
NetBSD port and a version of HPUX. They will not run DomainOS and
hence are not true Apollos (not that I am biased or anything).
Where are they located?
On a different land mass to me?
Perhaps they are just not old enough?
They are old enough, well over 10 years by now.
[...]
Simon
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