dan@chemsh.uucp (David Neal) (06/18/91)
In article <9106171410.AA04133@pan.ssec.honeywell.com>, thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM (John Thompson) writes: |> |> > I've got an Apollo DN3000.... and a 3com EtherNet Card in hand. |> > |> > What is the next best step to preceed to installing it and getting |> > rid of that Apollo Ring Card???? |> > |> > Somebody mentioned that I might have to re-compile the kernel... |> > Sounds pretty ugly... Has anyone done it before ? |> Good God, no! First off, you'd need source to recompile the kernel, and |> Apollo does not provide source-code licenses to anyone short of God. |> Second, you don't need to do anything so ugly. These are Apollos, after |> all. |> Speaking of sources... does Apollo supply enough technical information to port a new OS to the box? A quick port of MACH, slap on the unix emulation, compile up X and voila! One very expensive X terminal! Come to think of it, BSD 4.4 on a DN10000... wonder how much more you could squeeze out of the box by dumping AEGIS? |> John Thompson Argh, something tells me I've just entered the flame-war starters hall of fame. -- David Neal - Unix Contractor at large -- dan@chemsh.uucp - (800) 486-3972 APOLLO: Unix? We can do better than that! ... Just kidding! DEC: First we swore at Unix(TM), now we swear by it. MACH: The Unix(TM) of the 90's, it's small, it's fast, and you can't have it.
mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Gschwind) (06/19/91)
In article <1991Jun18.145814.5910@chemsh.uucp> dan@chemsh.uucp (David Neal) writes:
Speaking of sources... does Apollo supply enough technical information
to port a new OS to the box? A quick port of MACH, slap on the unix
emulation, compile up X and voila! One very expensive X terminal!
I wonder if there is enough expertise for making an OS run on Apollo
boxes. There a lot to do: device drivers, networking s/w (ATR ?),
etc. etc. - But I would most certainly _love_ to run the GNU OS on our
Apollos, once it's available...
bye,
mike
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Fax: (++43).1.569697 nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) (06/22/91)
In article <MIKE.91Jun19142031@cuba.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at> mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Michael Gschwind) writes: >I wonder if there is enough expertise for making an OS run on Apollo >boxes. There a lot to do: device drivers, networking s/w (ATR ?), >etc. etc. - But I would most certainly _love_ to run the GNU OS on our >Apollos, once it's available... I'd settle for OSF/1. Which is particularly frustrating, since a number of the ports have been done, but HP refuses to release them. -- Alfalfa Software, Inc. | Poste: The EMail for Unix nazgul@alfalfa.com | Send Anything... Anywhere 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | info@alfalfa.com I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.