Re: [Somewhat OT] What your non-OVMS machines run?

From: Michael Austin (maustin_at_firstdbasource.com)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:57:58 GMT

Undisclosed wrote:

> personal ones or ones you administer for non-work purposes, of course,
> since it would be a little cheesy to ask about work machines.
>
> I wondered if everyone here were total OVMS stalwarts that wouldn't
> dream of not having DCL on one of their machines, and if not, what their
> personal systems of choice besides OVMS ran.
>
> I'm using fairly cheap ( I deliberately bought less than the state of
> the art) but well constructed x86 based machines multibooting variously
> between Win XP, various Linux distros, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.
>
> I'm thinking about getting a MIPS-based Linksys WRT54G router for cheap
> and play around with turning it into a customized Linux or NetBSD based
> router.
>
> I would love to get some exotic hardware to play with eventually... an
> old Alpha system to run OpenVMS and maybe some cheap SPARC-based systems
> to play around with and old IBM machines to run AIX on. Or even better,
> a brand new G5 Powerbook. :)
>
> I'd love to have some low end Ciscos or Junipers to play around with
> too, but those things are expensive. $600 min for a half-broke router
> only capable of running IOS 11 and not upgradable is not my idea of a
> good price.

2 DELL's running W98 and XP
Digital Starion (PI/166) running Caldera Linux
Custom Intel MMX also running Caldera (RH9AS would NOT install on this CPU)
AS2100-A OpenVMS 7.3-1 (Apache, MySQL, Rdb (w/OCI8 Client), PHP, Perl)
Custom AMD running RH9
Custom AMD running XP 

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