X10 & RTs (was: IBM PGA)

From: Ken Seefried <ken_at_seefried.com>
Date: Tue Apr 24 15:31:00 2001

>
> From: "Eric J. Korpela" <korpela_at_ellie.ssl.berkeley.edu>
>
> We also had a couple of PC-RT's running
> X10 as a windowing system as opposed to X11.
>

Wow...that brings back memories.

Anyone else use X10 on a BellTech BLIT card under System V/386? Quirky
Intel video processor & all. I still see people using the cheapo BellTech
HUB6 cards. How many have the 8530s unsoldered and replaced with 16550s...

Anyone else use Dell System VR4/386? That was a really nice distro. Much
nicer than Everex, AT&T, Microport, et. al. Yes kids...there was time when
*nix on the i386 wasn't free.

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> And a couple XTs running some Unix version (PCIX?)
>

I seem to recall PC/IX. Didn't Venix run on them as well? Anyone else
remeber Venix?

>
> I need to stop the nostalgia now or I'll break into a rousing rendition of
> "Where have all the RTs gone?"
>

Ack. No. I'm sure they are in the same place all of the other
technicalliny interesting, ultimately quirky, underpowered, overpriced &
poorly marketed hardware is.

Ken Seefried, CISSP
Received on Tue Apr 24 2001 - 15:31:00 BST