Re installing XP on Sony

[Gordon JC Pearce]

Tony Duell wrote:
>>One of the dangers (to bring things around to being on-topic for this
>>list) is that people will start running Linux or a BSD exclusively on
>>their vintage hardware.  A lot of the character of the vintage system is
>>lost when it has the same BASH prompt as any old PC Clone someone bought
>>at a garage sale. 
> 
> 
> For much te same reason I am actively against running PNX (PERQ Unix, 
> basically a V7 derrivative) on classic PERQs.
> 
> If you want a unix box, then get a unix box (e.g. a PC running linux or 
> *BSD). IMHO a PERQ should run POS (the original PERQ operating system, 
> written mostly in a very extended Pascal). POS is better for running 
> user-written microcode too...
> 
> -tony
> 

That said, I *do* want to run some sort of Unix on my PDP-11/73. 
Probably won't boot it that often, though.

Gordon.