Stupid lusers...

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_at_infinet.com>
Date: Sun Jun 7 02:14:38 1998

>
> Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > There
> > was a UNIX box, made by Perkin-Elmer that had two 68000 processors...

> Actually, I believe it was the original Sun 1 which used the double
> 68000s.

Really... The old P-E did, too, IRRC.

> Perkin-Elmer did make a 68000 Unix box, the 7350. It actually could run
> three diffent OS's:
>
> Personal IRIX
> Uniplus System 3
> MicroXelos (Uniplus-derived SVR2)
>
> Interestingly, the MicroXelos kernel was smart enough to know about the
> 68010. If you installed one in a 7350, it would use different trap
> handling code.

Cool. I have a 7350 (with the touch buttons on the bottom edge of the
monitor) running Uniplus SIII. I have original docs and install media,
too. A former employer used it for C-> 68K ASM conversion for a never-
released WAN router (c. 1984) I have the original WAN router OS and
the (small) pile of prototype 68K-based router boxes (68K, 68451, with
4 proprietary slots with either 4 DMA-SIO or 8 PIO-SIO, for the non-
TLA-impared). If they had ever _released_ a product, it might have
amounted to something. We used the Z8530 SIO, one of the coolest
UARTs ever made (as seen on the Mac and Sun). We used to ship a
68K-based intellegent SIO card for VAXen that spoke HASP, 3780 and
SNA, for $25000! Those were the days.

-ethan
Received on Sun Jun 07 1998 - 02:14:38 BST