Atari TT030 install media...

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue May 11 03:59:06 2004

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 19:28, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > > I truthfully can't see a good reason to install Unix on one of these
> >> systems these days. You should be able to get a PC that will do it
> >> better and faster for free.
> >
> >It's just nice as a museum exhibit though, if we're able to show it
> >running both a windowing environment and a real Unix with networking
> >too.
>
> But if you want to use the system as a museum exhibit, wouldn't it be
> best to show it running it's original OS? I can see loading Unix if
> the OS wasn't available, but for the TT030 it is.

Oh, absolutely. And when just left running on display for people to play
around with it would be.

Many of the public we get coming round have heard of Unix but associate
it with big powerful machines locked away in a server room somewhere -
it'd be nice to be able to also show it running on a small plastic-cased
desktop machine :-)

cheers

Jules
Received on Tue May 11 2004 - 03:59:06 BST