In article <006a01c75f69$49ae4130$0b01a8c0 at game>, "Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> writes: The University of Utah ported BSD to these machines. They were widely used throughout the UofU CS department in the late 80s/early 90s. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

On Mar 5, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Teo Zenios wrote: They will run HP-UX up to 9.x (9.05 is canonical, though I have seen 9.07), or the Apollo DOMAIN/OS at SR10 (SR10.4.1 is the final release). Neither OS has been "current" for fifteen years. Media is still floating around, but you will have to dig a bit to find it. Peripherals and add-in cards (and tape drives for that matter) are not generally interchangeable between DOMAIN and HP-UX releases. If you have a system set up for HP-UX, you'll need at the very least a different keyboard and mouse to run DOMAIN/OS, very likely a new network interface card, and potentially an entirely different card cage (ISA vs. DIO-II). If you'll give me a week I'll have the S400 hardware maintenance manual published on my website, which gives illustrated parts breakdowns, LED diagnostic codes, part numbers, troubleshooting procedures, etc. for the series 400 workstations. There are also incomplete ports of BSD around for this platform. A VGA monitor can be used with the color VRX framebuffer as long as it supports 1280x1024 @ 60Hz with composite-sync-on-green. The AT- looking keyboard port will NOT accept a PC-AT keyboard! It's for a DOMAIN keyboard (for running DOMAIN/OS) which is a different beast entirely. HTH. Did you have other, more specific questions? ok bear

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:00:11 -0500 "Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote: NetBSD will give you a "modern" Unix style OS environement. NetBSD runs quite well on those machines. For the fun of it I instaled the "original" 4.4BSD Lite2 on my 433t. 4.4BSD was developed on this machinery. HP-UX is one "native" OS. I haven't seen much of m68k HP-UX, but most people don't like it that much. DomainOS is the other "native" OS. If you are interrested in somthing not-Unix you should get and install it. It is a very interresting system. As already mentioned you need a Domain keyboard + mouse for DomainOS / Aegis and a HIL keyboard + mouse for everything else. Yes, if it supports sync on green. You can also use a serial console. -- tsch??, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/