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- From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: System from scratch
- Message-ID: <1kDvtx#4nKmtk4xMtX00vP0hm5JMZvy=esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 04:01:17 GMT
- References: <35144@adm.brl.mil>
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- In <35144@adm.brl.mil> Martin Pauley wrote:
- > Is there anyone out there who has built a Unix box and could tell me
- > about their experience.
- >
- > It seems that the easiest way would be using components intended for
- > powerful DOS machines, since they are widely available. I'm curious if
- > anyone, as an amateur, has constructed a box with a design different
- > from the PC standard.
-
- With current technology, the only reasonable way to homebrew a UNIX box is by
- leveraging the ISA/EISA 80[34]86 standard. I wish it were otherwise, but the
- 68000 family lost its war nearly a decade ago now and no RISC chip yet commands
- anything like the breadth of support the Intel family does.
-
- Go pull my latest clone-hardware guide for UNIX buyers out of the news.answers
- archive; keyword "pc-unix". It will tell you most of what you need to know;
- also, why the UNIX-workstation market as we have known it is living on
- borrowed time...
- --
- Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
-