From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Sep 3 16:30:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8925B37B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055A843E75 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 16:30:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 17mN8B-0004Oi-01; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:30:47 +0200 Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g83MxFcG035125 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 00:59:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@localhost.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g83MxFDI035124 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 00:59:15 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Old machines, not Alpha was:AXPpci33 <-> Sparc sun4c serial cable Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 22:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20020903190239.A48033@gnah.bolet.org> <20020903201749.F14118@freebie.xs4all.nl> <1031078749.7991.15.camel@jan-freebsd.lan> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jan Lentfer wrote: > since the topic already started I'd liked to jump in. Do people on this > list also run other vintage (non-alpha, NON-X86!!) machines (not the > alpha is all vintage, but mine is). If so which? What experiences? What > OSes? I have a Sun Blade 100 (UltraSPARC) on loan, running OpenBSD. I also used to have a Sun SPARCstation 20/71 but I got tired of that box and after building OpenBSD/sparc packages for three releases in a row I decided I had had enough of that platform. I very much like non-x86 hardware, but I'm not a collector. For me a machine must still be usable. VAXen, m68k machines, non-Ultra SPARCs, alphas < 21164, and other boxes in that speed range don't qualify. YMMV, I know people who very much enjoy what I call "museum hardware", although I have no idea what they actually *do* with it. > I know it's off topic again, but.... (can't think of any excuses > anymore) Maybe continue on -chat? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message