ScottFree interpreter for Pocket PC

[David H. Barr]

On 5/9/05, Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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.

This seems to be the general consensus, not only in the classiccmp
lists but pretty much any "older" environment of which I've been a
member.  For instance, it's very close to the definition over at
freeshell.org , AKA Super Dimensional Fortress.  They run *BSD on
Alpha, as a descendant of the AT&T 3b2's all the way back to an APPLE
][e.

-dhbarr.