It was thus said that the Great R. Stricklin once stated:
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Captain Napalm wrote:
I don't recall what they were, but
that's okay. Several months ago I
managed to pick up two HP Apollos (3xx series) for free. All I'm doing now
is waiting on the OS (which a friend has, he just has to break root 8-)
Then you're going to be waiting a -loong- time. There is no real way to
break root on DomainOS. If you haven't got media, you're basically just
screwed.
Well, we have the media.
The situation is this: I have to HP Apollo 3xx (340 if I recall, I can
check when I get home). Each unit has two drives, each approximately 400M,
but each drive was wiped before being given out (@#@#$@#%!@## software
licensing). I did check one of the BSDs [1] and it did support the HP
Apollos but not my particular model (well, if I pull some code from this
version, and some code from that version, the model I have is covered). I
know that Linux has been ported to the 68k, but I would have to get
programming specs on the HP Apollo 3xx I have. Well, I'd like to get them
anyway for my own work in OS design (but that's beyond the scope of this
group). I haven't bothered to check HP yet (hmmmm, maybe I can check their
site) for fear I'll have to pay for the information (like I did for the uVAX
2000 I have).
Anyway, to get back on track. My friend (who also picked one up) knows
some people where he works that have the media for DomainOS that doesn't
require a network to boot, but the root password has been lost (for what
it's worth, it is on a disk).
My friend has been rather busy at work though so he hasn't had time to
play around with it.
Besides, the only HP machines (proper) to run DomainOS
were the 4xx
series machines. The 3xx machines ran something else. HP-UX, probably.
There were the Apollo DSP and DN series machines, and the HP/Apollo 4xxx
machines. These were, IIRC, the only machines to run DomainOS (formerly
called AEGIS).
Oh. Rats.
-spc (Might be having more fun that he bargined for 8-/
[1] Open|Net|Free. Don't recall which I checked.