ScottFree interpreter for Pocket PC

[Scott Stevens]

On Mon, 9 May 2005 23:56:17 +0100 (BST)
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:

> > Not sure if you're trolling :-) but I would HOPE that the "10 year
> > rule" is invalid and that the new rule is "anything that ISN'T what
> > is currently sold today".  Meaning, Windows PCs and Mac OS X --
> > everything else, being around 10 
> 
> One minor problem (I hope...). Unix-like OSes and machines to run are
> still sold today, in that I can go to a PC shop and buy a modern PC
> and a book with a Linux CD-ROM in the back....
> 
> Now this list is not appropriate for linux discussions in general
> (there are many better places for such things), but surely we can talk
> about old unix boxen...
> 
> -tony

I consider 'classic UNIX hardware' to be anything that isn't a PC,
especially machines specifically designed for UNIX.  I have an Altos
586, an 8086 machine that is completely NOT a pee-cee.  It runs a Xenix
produced by Microsoft (pre-SCO) and is classic hardware.  And is
evidence of a slice of history now mostly forgotten, i.e. the days of
Microsoft before the IBM-PC deal, when they were actually a UNIX vendor
for the 8086 processor.  Early Sun boxes are also classic.  My oldest
Power1 RS/6000 box is classic hardware.

Truly classic UNIX would be DEC hardware running 'Ancient UNIX' of
course.