On Thursday 03 June 2004 18:33, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > It's kinda annoying that it lacks the harddrive, as it probably
> > lacks the VAX console software as well then.
> >
> > Pat
>
> Are you actually needing the VAX console software? From what I've
> seen it's not good for anything other than being a VAX Console. A
> Pro380 would be much more interesting with P/OS, RT-11, or even Unix.
No, but I'm willing to bet someone's VAX 8800 is! P/OS is kinda
interesting, but not horribly interesting. RT-11 or Venix/2.11BSD
would be more interesting to play with. Of course, the CTI bus limits
what you can really do with it vs. a QBUS/UNIBUS machine.
Pat
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