5 Apr
2005
5 Apr
'05
7:11 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Zane H. Healy
Sent: 05 April 2005 23:47
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Server space, SGI O2 drive sled, DEC 3000-300x (Pelican+)
Somewhere around Tru64 V5.0 support was dropped for the
Turbochannel graphics cards.
Ah!
I personally wouldn't describe a 3000-300LX as
"quite
speedy", I have one somewhere, and used it as a VMS server
for quite a while. OTOH, it uses 72-pin True Parity SIMM's,
rather than something proprietary, so it isn't a bad system.
Compared to what I was using at the time it was very speedy indeed :) I have
good memories of the 3000-300LX purely because that was the machine I taught
myself OSF/1 on over the space of 5 weekends because the bloke who HAD been
looking after these machines upped and left without much warning. Because of
that I subjected myself to many DECstations and Ultrix 4.x stuff purely
because I could, and that helped me with many things I still use today on
the unix front.
cheers
a