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#! rnews 1719 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news1.oakland.edu!wsu-cs!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca!ccshst01.cs.uoguelph.ca!rmacklem From: rmacklem@uoguelph.ca (Rick Macklem) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: The Long Lost search for Unix on a DEC Pro/350. Date: 28 Jul 1995 15:50:40 GMT Organization: University of Guelph Lines: 27 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3vb10g$gi8@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> References: <MICHAEL.95Jul28103931@famine.dmi.stevens-tech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ccshst01.cs.uoguelph.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael G. Morrissey (michael@famine.dmi.stevens-tech.edu) wrote: : Hi everyone! : I'm desperately, desperately in search of Unix for my old DEC Pro/350. : I've been told rumors that someone, some time ago, ported BSD to : the Pros. So I thought I'd ask here. : Has anyone ever heard of this? Is it still available? ANY information : or possible leads would be very appreciated. Unfortunately I was the fool that did this many long years ago (1982?). To use it you had to have the machine on a Unix Seventh Edition source license and also be source licensed for 2.9BSD, which was the kernel I hacked to work on it. I don't think I even have it lying about any more (the Pro350 was scrapped several years ago), but if you did have all the above licenses for it, I could take a look at old archive tapes. 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". Have a good weekend, rick