14 Jun
1998
14 Jun
'98
12:23 p.m.
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, John Rollins wrote:
since I setup my radio stuff on the workbench). What I
consider to be some
of the strangest computers I have ever seen(with the exception of some
micros[or where they minis?] that were kinda odd, but not like an Apollo).
I would very much agree with this assessment. (:
It is ISA, but don't expect PC cards to work in
it. I'm not sure of the
specifics, but I DO know that most PC ISA cards will not work in an Apollo.
With some exceptions, no PC cards will work. Mainly because of driver
issues (being non-existent and BIOSes hiding actual I/O calls needed to
write the drivers), and the MC68k being byte-backward with respect to the
ix86.
As for booting from a SCSI disk, they can. Sort of.
Hey, you can boot from
a SCSI tape drive...
Yes, it can boot from a SCSI QIC tape, but not from a SCSI disk.
As for HP/UX, I don't know about any of that. It
may not run the actual
OS, but there are some HP/UX-style programs on my 3500...
Thanks to the BSD or SYSV environments you can layer over AEGIS (the real
Domain/OS environment). But many of the internals are nothing like UNIX.
If only I could figure out that damn machine! It's
been driving me
crazy ever since I got it... Anyone in the PDX area have a copy of the
Domain/OS 10.4.x tapes I could borrow?
I know exactly how you feel. I've had a half-operational DN5500 for a year
and a half until just a month ago I got a DN4000 with enough spare parts
(and OS tapes!) to fix it. I've got 10.3, 104, and the 10.4.1 update for
Motorola and 10.4.P for Prism (DN10000) in the Seattle area. As you might
imagine, I'm a bit covetous of my OS tapes, especially as I've not been
able to archive them adequately yet.
The OS media situation is compounded by the fact that HP is still
supporting Apollo through 2000.
Email me privately, and we'll see what we may work out.
ok
r.