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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!wcap.centerline.com!news!brazile From: brazile@recife.centerline.com (Robert Brazile) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: The Long Lost search for Unix on a DEC Pro/350. Date: 31 Jul 1995 17:58:31 GMT Organization: CenterLine Software Inc. Lines: 17 Distribution: world Message-ID: <BRAZILE.95Jul31135831@recife.centerline.com> References: <MICHAEL.95Jul28103931@famine.dmi.stevens-tech.edu> <3vb10g$gi8@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: recife In-reply-to: rmacklem@uoguelph.ca's message of 28 Jul 1995 15:50:40 GMT In article <3vb10g$gi8@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> rmacklem@uoguelph.ca (Rick Macklem) writes: It was doggy dirt slow, never supported a windowing system and couldn't talk TCP/IP worth beans (the Pro380 with separate I/D support would run the 2.9BSD TCP/IP ok), so it's just not worth the effort, even if all you want is "something to play with". It was indeed doggy-dirt slow, but the TCP worked OK for us. A friend and I (Hi Paul!) squeezed 2.9 onto a Pro/350 at the Rice U. Space Physics department in '85. Made a reasonable mail drop, but not much else. Making sendmail work in overlays was a lot of fun; we eventually punted and hacked delivermail (or something smaller) to stagger along. -- Robert Brazile brazile@centerline.com CenterLine Software +1 (617) 498-3231 Cambridge, Massachusetts