88000 machines

From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Fri Jun 14 09:22:16 2002

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Carlos Murillo wrote:

> At 08:15 PM 6/13/02 +0100, you wrote:
> >> > All the single-chip HP calculator CPUs (ACT, NUT, Saturn, etc).
> >> > MIPS R2000, R3000
> >> > SPARC
> >> > Alpha
> >> > Microcontrollers (8048, 8051, PIC, ...)
> >I didn't say I had all of those. In particular I am missing the SPARC,
> >the Alpha amd the R3000 at least.
>
> Sparc:
> I'd recommend a Sparcstation IPX; small, and can be run from a serial
> console. Cheap or free; it maxes at 64MB RAM. You can run Linux on it.
> I have two running Solaris 2.6 .
>
> >> and most of the HP calculator (and one of the MIPS - I have a
> >
> >I started seriously collecting (and using) HP handhelds when I ran out of
> >space for 19" racks :-).
>
> Never had much particularly bulky stuff; I had to leave the hp 9000/370,
> 9000/433s, their monitors (about 200lb total), the uVaxII and other stuff
> behind when I left the U.S. I kept the hp 9000/380, though, and it is
> up as nazas.autonoma.edu.co .
>
> > It was then that I discovered that although an
> >HP41 will fit in my pocket, the disk drive, Thinkjet printer, tape drive,
> >data logger, RS232 inteface, video interface, HPIB interface, etc take up
> >a fairly large bench :-)
>
> The HP3421 is even bigger.
>
> >> DECstation that has a MIPS processor, R3000 IIRC). The rest
> >
> >I have most of an R2000-based machine. A Whitechapel Hitec 10 IIRC.
> >Probably enough to get it going again, but I have no hardware information
> >at all on it (not even a pinout of the R2000 chip) so it's going to be a
> >very long-term project...
>
> Hmmm... I'd recommend a Decstation 2000 for the R2000. Though I am not
> sure about the status of free OS's for it... I am not sure if netBSD
> supports it... there was something odd about the way it handles pages.
> But I remember using a 12MHz model with a mono framebuffer;
> Ultrix; interesting for its time. It made a good ftp server until about
> three years ago, when we decommissioned it. I think Linc Fessenden
> ended up with it. Are you still there, Linc?

        You probably mean a DECStation 2100 or 3100. Those are both R2000
based, only difference between 2100 and 3100 is that the 2100 runs at 12 MHZ
and the 3100 at 16. NetBSD supports them quite well. Probably the fastest
small workstation at the time they came out (1989). They look like, and use
the same (or very similar) case, power supply, peripherals, as VS3100/30/38.




>
> carlos.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
>
>

Peter Wallace
Received on Fri Jun 14 2002 - 09:22:16 BST