Unix on old-ish machines - advice sought

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Williams <williams.dan at gmail.com> writes:

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

You can run 2BSD on a PDP11, or 4BSD on a VAX.  Sure, Sun will do too,
but DEC machines were the original targets for the BSD systems, I
believe -- and certainly either should work well.

	paul