6 Apr
2005
6 Apr
'05
1:30 p.m.
On Apr 6 2005, 9:39, Stan Barr wrote:
I'd like to get a straight (ie no X) Unix running
on some sort of
older, but not necessarily ancient, hardware. My Micro-11/73 is
not really suitable, and PDP-11s that are seem to be a bit thin
on the ground over here in the UK. I've seen a few Vaxen and
MicroVaxen on the market lately so my thoughts are turning in
that direction. I know a few people here run such machines and I'm
seeking advice on the best machine to look for and, at the risk of
starting a religious war, the best unix to run on it... :-)
A micro-11/73 would run 2.11 BSD quite well. I have one like that
(actually it's an 11/83 but not very different). An 11/23 would run
7th Edition, but it would be slow, and have no TCP/IP networking. A
microVAX would do BSD quite well. Or if you want something classic but
not *too* old, my favourite would be something like an SGI Indigo. An
R3000 with Irix 5.3 would be quite nice (I have three of them). If
you'd asked 6 months ago you could have had one of my spares, and a
monitor. Maybe you'd like an SGI Indy, with Irix 5.3? I certainly
have a spare Indy. BTW, I also saved a hub and a terminal server for
you...
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
7 Apr
7 Apr
12:59 a.m.
Hi,
Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.u-net.com> said:
On Apr 6 2005, 9:39, Stan Barr wrote:
My 11/73 has quite a small hard disk and small memory, and I'd like
to keep it running RT-11 as it has some sort of colour frame-buffer
card and the software for that is RT-11 (though I've not figured it
out yet - must take the covers off and see exactly *what* the card
is!)
I'd like to get a straight (ie no X) Unix
running on some sort of
older, but not necessarily ancient, hardware. My Micro-11/73 is
not really suitable, and PDP-11s that are seem to be a bit thin
on the ground over here in the UK. I've seen a few Vaxen and
MicroVaxen on the market lately so my thoughts are turning in
that direction. I know a few people here run such machines and I'm
seeking advice on the best machine to look for and, at the risk of
starting a religious war, the best unix to run on it... :-)
A micro-11/73 would run 2.11 BSD quite well. I have one like that
(actually it's an 11/83 but not very different). An 11/23 would run
7th Edition, but it would be slow, and have no TCP/IP networking. A
microVAX would do BSD quite well. Or if you want something classic but
not *too* old, my favourite would be something like an SGI Indigo. An
R3000 with Irix 5.3 would be quite nice (I have three of them). If
you'd asked 6 months ago you could have had one of my spares, and a
monitor. Maybe you'd like an SGI Indy, with Irix 5.3? I certainly
have a spare Indy.
SGI is one one my list, a few people have suggested Sun and HP as well.
I simply want a machine to demonstrate traditional unix to visitors as
an addition to my machines running RT-11, RSTS/E and early-ish MacOS,
oh - and this Linux box and the later Mac, must set up my AT as well.
Most of my visitors haven't used anything but Windows and need
educating :-)
BTW, I also saved a hub and a terminal server for
you...
Still having difficulties with transport, may be going to Bradford soon
and York is not much further - we'll see...
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
3:31 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 08:59:31AM +0100, Stan Barr wrote:
SGI is one one my list,
BTW: I still have a SGI
4D30 for sell. (Location: Kaiserslautern, Germany)
a few people have suggested Sun and HP as well. I
simply want a machine
to demonstrate traditional unix to visitors as an addition
My HP9000 433t is
running 4.4BSD-Lite2, a quite classic BSD flavor.
Most (all?) later HP9000 300 should be capable to run 4.4BSD-Lite2 too.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
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