[rescue] AT&T 3b1 Starlan software

Andrew Weiss ajwdsp at cloud9.net
Wed Feb 12 23:07:44 CST 2003


well it sounds much better :-)  What was the last 68K box that AT&T made?...
did they go on to other architectures or just stuff everything onto x86
boxen.  I had SYSV from AT&T on floppies and installed it on a 486, so they
must've moved over at some point.

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] AT&T 3b1 Starlan software


> On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 10:49 PM, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> > What? What?... !! the sky is falling... Dave admits liking a PC?
>
>    The 7300/3B1 is based on a Motorola 68010 CPU and bears no
> resemblance (not even physical resemblance) to an x86 PeeCee.
>
>    Unix System V release 2 with a GUI in 512KB of RAM and a 10MB disk.
> It was amazing for its time.  Eons ago (this would've been maybe 1987
> or so), my friends and I did all sorts of cool stuff with UUCP mail and
> the built-in modems.
>
>        -Dave
>
> --
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