Re: [Somewhat OT] What your non-OVMS machines run?
From: Michael Austin (maustin_at_firstdbasource.com)
Date: 07/31/04
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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 13:04:15 GMT
Roger Ivie wrote:
> On 2004-07-29, Undisclosed <nomail@dontbeaweaselspammer.com> 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'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.
>
>
> My wife gets the good machine; I run the old crap no one wants anymore.
> My main machine is now the machine her best friend gave up on because it
> was too slow. I run NetBSD on it.
>
> I also have a beige G3 on which I run MacOS. I used to run NetBSD on it,
> until the wife bought a firewire camcorder and suddenly wanted to be
> able to run iMovie.
>
> My main VMS machine is a Sandpiper I got surplus for $25. I also have a
> VAXstation 4000/96 for running VMS, although it also ran as an
> unofficial corporate webserver using NetBSD for about a year at a PPOE.
>
> I like NetBSD for a couple of reasons:
>
> - It runs on things that aren't PCs, and I have plenty of those.
>
> - It is highly configurable in a manner that Linux and FreeBSD aren't.
>
> My previous PC was my wife's old box; something in the IDE
> controller died in a manner that made it incapable of running
> Windows (for some reason, the IDE controller could no longer do
> DMA). I was able to configure NetBSD around the problem by simply
> telling it to ignore that PCI IDE controller and use it as if it
> were an ISA one.
>
> I tried both FreeBSD and Linux on the machine, but they both
> discovered the PCI IDE controller and keeled over because they
> tried to use the broken DMA. The machine ran NetBSD 24x7 for a
> couple of years with a broken IDE controller.
>
> I have an 8" SSSD CP/M box right here. And my Epson PX-8, although I
> need to run through it and change all the batteries...
that's funny because my Starion cannot use it as a MASTER on the primary port on
the first controller, so I configured it on the SLAVE controller. What this
means is that my Caldera Linux boots from floppy (I have several) and then
transfers control to the system disk. I could never get the BIOS to allow boot
from the SLAVE. It works,
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