29 Jul
1998
29 Jul
'98
1:57 p.m.
I was at a computer junk store the other day and saw a long flat
computer case/box; about 3 inches high, about 18 wide and 10 long. It
was some sort of unix terminal/system/something, because it still had a
label with the network host name etc on it.
BUT-
it said m88k on it! it might have also said NCR but I'm not sure. what
kind of things are used on the 880x0's? I know NetBSD has an m88k port
but who or what would have originally run on such things, and how old
are they? I have to admit it piqued my curiosity. If possible I'm going
back to grab the thing. One last question- how do the 88k's compare to
the 68k's or a MIPS chip? I remember some discussion about SGI switching
to MIPS instead of using the 88k due to slow development or something to
that effect. (whether that's true or not I have no idea, so don't flame
me :)
-Eric
30 Jul
30 Jul
3:02 p.m.
I remember back in '98 when Poesie wrote:
I was at a computer junk store the other day and saw a
long flat
computer case/box; about 3 inches high, about 18 wide and 10 long. It
was some sort of unix terminal/system/something, because it still had a
label with the network host name etc on it.
BUT-
it said m88k on it! it might have also said NCR but I'm not sure.
I know that NCD made some 88k based xterms. When I was at the
Univ. of North Texas there were a few (1992, 1990? era) there
with nice 19" or 20" fixed frequency monitors.
These machines used tftp to boot from a Solaris client. The ones
I saw had 4 or 6MB of memory (I know this, b/c I crashed one
after a runaway process opened ~100 windows ;)
If that's what you have (sound about the right dimensions) it
would make a decent Xterm if you could find a monitor and k/b.
IIRC the NCDterms I'm thinking of had a light grey box with
horizontal indentations along the front and a sort of 1-2-3
boxes pyramid design on the left front.
Matt
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