Unix on old-ish machines - advice sought

[Pete Turnbull]

On Apr 6 2005,  9:39, Stan Barr wrote:

> 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... :-)

A micro-11/73 would run 2.11 BSD quite well.  I have one like that
(actually it's an 11/83 but not very different).  An 11/23 would run
7th Edition, but it would be slow, and have no TCP/IP networking.  A
microVAX would do BSD quite well.  Or if you want something classic but
not *too* old, my favourite would be something like an SGI Indigo.  An
R3000 with Irix 5.3 would be quite nice (I have three of them).  If
you'd asked 6 months ago you could have had one of my spares, and a
monitor.  Maybe you'd like an SGI Indy, with Irix 5.3?  I certainly
have a spare Indy.  BTW, I also saved a hub and a terminal server for
you...


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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						University of York