[rescue] OSs for PA-Risc

[Linc Fessenden]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:25:58PM -0400, Linc Fessenden wrote:
> 
> > > I just noticed that 4.4-Lite and mach have a ready made distro for PA
> > > Risc that supports my 712/80.  Anyone ever tried using it?  The URL is
> > > http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/mach4-parisc/html/pamach.html
> > > 
> > > I don't really want to put linux on the thing, and netbsd support looks
> > > crummy.  I could do nextstep, but I don't currently have the space to
> > > have it setup as a user workstation.  I've never actually used a Mach
> > > setup, and find the idea somewhat appealing...  They say it is inactive,
> > > and not all that usefull though...
> > 
> > What's wrong w/ HPUX?
> 
> The biggest problem is that I haven't been able to get a copy that works
> on 712 and/or 715 machines (the 715 because I have a friend with an OS
> less 715 that he wants HP-UX 10.20 and oracle 7 something or other on).
> 
> Other than that, there is nothing wrong, but having a more open OS could
> be nice for somethings that I might want to do.  Or it might not. 
> 
> 

Really?  My copy says it's for 700 series machines and b,c,j or something
like that..  Maybe it's like a server/workstation kind of differentiation?

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-Linc Fessenden

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