AT&T PC 6300 Plus Unix box

From: Ward Griffiths <wdg3rd_at_home.com>
Date: Sun Oct 3 15:45:59 1999

Bill Yakowenko wrote:
>
> Thanks Bill,
>
> I don't remember seeing DIP switches, but then I wasn't looking
> for them either. I'll try digging info out of the NCR website
> that Russ pointed out, and hope it tells me which switch is which.

Doubt NCR has the data, though you never know. The machine was
built by Olivetti five or so years before AT&T bought NCR, and I
think they'd cut loose from Olivetti long before, considering that
their PCs were built by Intel from 1991 or so.
>
> Gosh, the machine on which the Korn shell was developed! Almost
> historic, aint it? Hope I can get it to go. Wonder if ksh is
> actually installed on it? :-)

Doubt it. Though I know that ksh was available on SysV/386, I
know of no updates to the 6300+. Well, it was available from the
Usenet and I think some AT&T hosts unofficially, just as it was for
the 7300/3B1 series. (None of the former hosts that used to
semi-officially support the 6300 or 7300 Unix platforms exists any
longer. I know hosts maintaining 7300/3B1 archives, I am unaware
of any for the 6300+ -- a query on comp.sys.att might produce
something, maybe even one on comp.sys.3b1 [though that's not very
active anymore, and there used to be a large contingent of folks
who hated the existence of Intel PCs even when they used their
DOS/73 cards]).

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Received on Sun Oct 03 1999 - 15:45:59 BST

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