9 May
2005
9 May
'05
5:22 p.m.
On 5/9/05, Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net> wrote:
On Mon, 9 May 2005 23:56:17 +0100 (BST)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
I consider 'classic UNIX hardware' to be anything that isn't a PC,
especially machines specifically designed for UNIX. I have an Altos
586, an 8086 machine that is completely NOT a pee-cee.
This seems to be the general consensus, not only in the classiccmp
lists but pretty much any "older" environment of which I've been a
member. For instance, it's very close to the definition over at
freeshell.org , AKA Super Dimensional Fortress. They run *BSD on
Alpha, as a descendant of the AT&T 3b2's all the way back to an APPLE
][e.
-dhbarr.
Not sure
if you're trolling :-) but I would HOPE that the "10 year
rule" is invalid and that the new rule is "anything that ISN'T what
is currently sold today". Meaning, Windows PCs and Mac OS X --
everything else, being around 10
One minor problem (I hope...). Unix-like OSes and machines to run are
still sold today, in that I can go to a PC shop and buy a modern PC
and a book with a Linux CD-ROM in the back....
Now this list is not appropriate for linux discussions in general
(there are many better places for such things), but surely we can talk
about old unix boxen...
-tony