Quoting Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>:
> jarkko.teppo skrev:
> >http://www.tec.puv.fi/~s99137/kuvat/380takaa2.jpg
> >http://www.tec.puv.fi/~s99137/kuvat/380takaa.jpg
>
> >Then you have a 380. The machine in those crummy pictures has a DIO-I
> >expansion cab.
>
> So does mine, if that's the card with the ugly card-edge connector into
> which
> the additional LANCE board is plugged.
The expansion cab is the second cabinet with DIO-I slots in it.
The processor card is DIO-II and the extra lance card is DIO-I.
At the moment I have 3 * DIO-II and 5 * DIO-I. I'm also thinking
about expanding the expander, although it might slow things down
due to shared interrupts. We'll see. There also exist DIO-II to
DIO-I converters, you might have one of those.
>
> It's plugged straight in. Good for me.
Depends on if you have a lot of HP-IB disks. I have, I want more :)
>
> Now, should I just run NetBSD or is HPUX any more sufferable on the 380
> than
> on the 832?
Depends if you want to use it for anything useful or not.
IMHO a 380 is one the best 300-series machine there is (well, 385..)
It's fast, can take a lot of memory and if you've got some kit it's
a joy to expand. I've had at one point 13 hard drives + a big bunch
of tape drives from 9-tracks to 9144/9145 + DATs. Dual framebuffers
are cool if you've got 'em and so on.
I'd suggest you give HP-UX a go and then install NetBSD. You could try
one of the 4.3-reno=> (?) versions too.
--
jht
Received on Sat May 19 2001 - 06:15:28 BST
