VENIX on Rainbow (was Re: Wanting to get my first classic computer)

Ethan Dicks ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Wed Jun 19 21:09:35 CDT 2019


On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:47 PM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > Interesting.  I have VENIX on a Professional 350 (it was one of the
> > machines I had on display for VCF East).  I haven't tried fiddling
> > with VENIX on a Rainbow, though I did know it existed.
>
> Venix/PRO on a 380 here. I like it. Thinking about ways to make it
> primitively networked.

There is a DECNA, if you can find one.  It should work for 2.9BSD or
2.11BSD so it wouldn't be that hard to adapt to Venix, I'd wager.

Outside of that, SLIP/PPP?  UUCP?

-ethan


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