HP 300

On 20 May, Iggy Drougge wrote: [installing NetBSD or 4.4BSD or 4.3BSD-Reno on a hp300] It is older. ;-) It allways depends on your needs. - If you want a modern *ix OS, NetBSD is what you want. NetBSD is a nice, pure and small but complete Unix. It is my faforit OS. - If you want the OS this machine was build with, HP-UX is wat you want. HP-UX is a bit, hmm? I don't like it that much. - If you are interrested in the history of software, und / or you are a BSD Unix geek like me, some old 4.x BSD is what you want. I have several (ca. 30) *ix machines around here, most of them running NetBSD. So it is very interresting to work with some historic BSD releases on machines of the same vintage to see how things evolved. An other reason could be that NetBSD (1.5) got a bit "bloated" and it does not run that fast on a slower machine like a MicroVAX II or hp320. But that does'nt bother you if you own a hp380. -- tschuess, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz