[rescue] Way off Topic from the off topic subject ... was Re: OT: Solaris for Intel

[Paul Zibaila]

While were hashing about old 8 bit machines and old RS Coco machines in
particular.
There are several parts and pieces still available out there for these.
memory expansions, scsi interface, an ide interface, high speed serial
interface, an optimized OS-9 opsys
called NitrOS-9 that requires the Hitachi 6309 that has a couple extra
registers hidden away
on a 6809 replacement chip ... There is plans for an ethernet expansion
board ...
Yeah I have a couple of these in the stack in the dungeon :-) 
Had one on the dungeon net on running telnet & ftp over a slip connection
several years ago.
 
They were and are neat little boxes to play with.
The have a meeting of the zealot's pretty much every year in Chicago and we
even had one
out here in Pittsburgh Pa, that brought in people from Australia and
Manitoba Canada (IIRC)

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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:28:45 -0400
From: joshua d boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] OT: Solaris for Intel
Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org

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Those RS CoCo owners seem to be rather fanatical.  I came across a page
describing how to hack in several megs of ram (like 2 or 4), and PPP
implelentations.

What really takes the cake though is C64 owners.  Multitasking OS and a
SCSI HD, all on an 8 bit toy.

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-- 
Joshua D. Boyd