Free: Apollo DOMAIN/OS Software Distribution Tapes

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Tue Jun 20 14:07:38 2000

>Hi Mike;
>
>You probably don't need it. These tapes would be useful for
>the machines made by Apollo before it was bought by HP, at least
>for the non-68040 based. These had model names such as DN3000,
>DN3500 and DN4000, and ran Apollo's version of Unix, called
>Domain OS. Pretty decent. The machines you have were made by HP
>after it acquired Apollo; the first ones to bear the HP/Apollo name
>were the 68030/40 series 400 machines, which ran HPUX. For the
>400t you might want to look into netBSD, as the last version of
>HPUX that runs in 68K-based machines is 9.1 (I think) and is not
>y2k compliant. The series 700 machines have PA RISC cpus and
>should run HPUX 10.20 .
>
>carlos.
>
>At 03:50 AM 6/20/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>>Please read ALL of this message CAREFULLY before
>>>responding. Incomplete/erroneous replies will be directed to /dev/null,
>>
>>Could someone translate this into English?
>>
>>Do I need it or want this?
>>
>>I have several Apollo boxes, 400t up to 715/50, and I have the 10.20 free
>>update CDs from HP, but haven't played with them yet.

Thanks, that was what I was wanting to know.

Cheers, Mike Ford
Received on Tue Jun 20 2000 - 14:07:38 BST

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