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Re: any NetBSDers here?
From:
A . Bergman
Date:
February 12, 2003 01:22
Subject:
Re: any NetBSDers here?
Message ID:
77D7B0C2-3E6B-11D7-A2D3-003065D64CBE@nanisky.com
On onsdag, feb 12, 2003, at 10:17 Europe/Stockholm, Jarkko Hietaniemi
wrote:
>
>>> A pmax machine _upgraded_? Do you have a time machine that will take
>>> _the rest of the world_ back to 1990? :-)
>>>
>> ...
>> Heheh, I meant I will be upgrading the version of NetBSD to one with
>> real pthreads. I don't see a need to upgrade the hardware, it works
>> very nice ;-). It even builds Encode in less than 2 hours!
>
> I have fond memories of pmax, I had a DECstation as my workstation for
> a couple of years. Do you feel like installing Ultrix, we have not had
> Ultrix smoke testing for years? :-)
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Uhm, I would rather not install Ultrix, even if I had a way to get hold
of it! But I have a spare SCSI disk that I could run Ultrix on for
testing.
It is a DECsystem 5000/200 with 152mb of ram, so it's a pretty nice
machine, I got it for free from the Swedish Customs when they took it
out of production 9 months ago, and had to carry it around on a train
ride from Luleå.
Now I am just hoping they will retire the MicroVAXes so I can grab one.
Arthur