Unix on old-ish machines - advice sought

[Dan Williams]

On Apr 6, 2005 9:39 AM, Stan Barr <stanb at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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... :-)
> 
> TIA...
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com
> 
> The future was never like this!
> 
>
No Flame wars.....

But unless you get an old microvax running ultrix, vaxen run better
with vms. If you want to run unix cheaply you are better off with an
older Sun or HP machine, you can get these cheap (less then 100) from
ebay. Also you get the choice of  running *bsd as well. You can also
get sgi machines cheaply but the os is harder to come by.

Dan