11 Oct
2010
11 Oct
'10
3:30 p.m.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote about the AT&T Unix PC (7300 or
3B1):
It would take some digging, but I've got more than one of these
beasties, and I've also got the Wollongong software (as well as a LOT
of diskettes for the Unix PC; I rescued a 3 machine setup from an
owner who appears to have purchased every single option he could get
his hands on). I've even got the 'black binder' which is the
technician's field notebook for repairs, I believe. I can look at it
and see if there's anything useful in it. I loved rescuing these
machines and have set up 2 of them from the original (25 year old)
diskettes, but I haven't had time to do much more than that.
Mark
I don't presently have one, but if I do ever run across one, I'd want
to make sure I had a "StarLAN" card (1Base5, for the pedants in the
crowd) - I even have a few official StarLAN transceivers and such -
they work fine on a 10BaseT network.
I don't know anything about the StarLAN software for the UnixPC. ?The
Ethernet card came with a port of the BSD IP stack done by The Wollongong
Group. ?Because the kernel is System V Release 2, they had to implement
select() in a user space library, and it ONLY works with network sockets,
and not with native devices. ?This makes it challenging to get any
non-trivial networking software ported.