[rescue] Dec PWS 500a

Bill Bradford rescue at sunhelp.org
Sat Aug 25 01:41:02 CDT 2001


On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 01:09:47AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   Christ, 4.x?  Are you serious?  I remember upgrading from 3.2 to 4.0
> on a couple of 4D/25Gs when I worked at TRW S&D back in 1991.

Yep.  This was one of those "aint broke, dont fix it / change it" places.
Most of the 4.x machines had 16meg or 32meg RAM and were acting only has
xterms to bigger machines, by this point... all the engineers went from
R3000 Indigos to P2-300 HP PCs. 8-)

>   Well, port to the system, sure...but likely not that video
> hardware. :-(

I could have lived with serial console; these were 8bit crapboxes.

Made great little web/dns servers.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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