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- From: vds7789@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com (Vincent D. Skahan)
- Subject: Re: System from scratch
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.155036.3974@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com>
- Organization: none
- References: <35144@adm.brl.mil> <1kDvtx#4nKmtk4xMtX00vP0hm5JMZvy=esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:50:36 GMT
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- esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
-
- >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.
-
-
- What you build depends on what you want to do, but I have a generic econo-buy
- PC with a cheapie SVGA card and a couple of IDE drives (in other words, a normal
- 386-33 clone) and I run color X11R5, usenet news, elm, etc. at home for free
- using the "Linux" *nix...
-
- see comp.os.linux for free.
-
-
-
- --
- --------- Vince Skahan ----- vds7789@aw101.iasl.ca.boeing.com -------
- I make it a point to always have something from each of the five basic
- food groups....salt, sugar, fat, grease, and alcohol.
-