Re: [Scottish] Moving house!
Dan Shearer: > It was precisely the goal of running Linux instead of RiscOS > (interesting though it is) that drove the ARM port of Linux as a totally > impractical hobby on outdated hardware. Then Russell King found his > hobby at the centre of interest by ARM Plc and embedded device > manufacturers, and it is now running on millions of devices. So three > cheers for pointless projects. There's lots of fun and education and > frustration to be had by jamming free OSs onto the kind of hardware that > turns up when people move house and I highly recommend it to people who > have only ever seen x86 :-) What about porting Linux to this: http://acarol.woz.org/ (/me hides) C ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Moving house!
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 07:22:21PM +, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 00:09 +1030, Dan Shearer wrote: > I've contributed patches to SimH and written a PDP8 > emulator and an SC/MP emulator. Thanks for the software, I'm an appreciative user. > > Conversely for people wanting to run a real OS on very different > > hardware, NetBSD runs on all of them (and depending on the model > > maybe the Apollo as well) and Linux runs on the Archimedes. > > Why the hell would you even consider trying to run Linux on the > Archimedes? It's got a perfectly good OS of its own. It was precisely the goal of running Linux instead of RiscOS (interesting though it is) that drove the ARM port of Linux as a totally impractical hobby on outdated hardware. Then Russell King found his hobby at the centre of interest by ARM Plc and embedded device manufacturers, and it is now running on millions of devices. So three cheers for pointless projects. There's lots of fun and education and frustration to be had by jamming free OSs onto the kind of hardware that turns up when people move house and I highly recommend it to people who have only ever seen x86 :-) -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS Now here's an interesting thing off /. : the GFDL will be changed to be CC compatible, which is especially important for Wikipedia (with an incorrectly-named URL): http://blog.jamendo.com/index.php/2007/12/01/breaking-news-wikipedia-switches-to-creative-commons/ ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Moving house!
On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 00:09 +1030, Dan Shearer wrote: > For people curious about virtualisation and observing the crossover > between real world and fake silicon, you can boot the original media and > hard disk images for these machines under Linux using various emulators > including SimH, GXemu (well, DecStation 3100 is less well-supported than > the 5000 series which I know works; need to see, but you can certainly > run Ultrix binaries anyway if that counts :) and QEMU and RPCEmu for the > Archimedes. There's also Arculator for Windows. Yes, I know. I've contributed patches to SimH and written a PDP8 emulator and an SC/MP emulator. > Conversely for people wanting to run a real OS on very different > hardware, NetBSD runs on all of them (and depending on the model > maybe the Apollo as well) and Linux runs on the Archimedes. Why the hell would you even consider trying to run Linux on the Archimedes? It's got a perfectly good OS of its own. Gordon ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
re: [Scottish] Moving house!
-- Message: 3 Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:12:13 + From: Gordon JC Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Scottish] Moving house! To: SLUG-list Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain Hi all, I'm moving house. As the place I'm moving to is a little smaller (well really about the same size, but fully-furnished and a bit full of junk) I'm getting rid of some stuff. These include but are not limited to (in no particular order): Some PCs Some VAXStation 3100s A DECStation 3100 A MicroVAX 3300 an LA36 dot-matrix printer terminal (quite big) Possibly a couple of CP/M machines Possibly a CPM/86 machine (all of these fairly small) Some more PCs Possibly one of those HP scanner/printer things, but I don't have the funny parallel cable Some other computers, possibly including an HP Apollo desktop and an Acorn Archimedes (not decided about the Archie yet). Hohner Organetta electric piano, with stand You can pick them up, or I can probably drop them off. Nothing except the LA36 is particularly big. Gordon -- ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish End of Scottish Digest, Vol 193, Issue 4 Hi! Which model Archimedes is it, I could be interested :). Rob ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Moving house!
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:12:13AM +, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: > junk) I'm getting rid of some stuff. These include but are not limited : > Some VAXStation 3100s > A DECStation 3100 > A MicroVAX 3300 > Acorn Archimedes (not decided about the Archie yet). For people curious about virtualisation and observing the crossover between real world and fake silicon, you can boot the original media and hard disk images for these machines under Linux using various emulators including SimH, GXemu (well, DecStation 3100 is less well-supported than the 5000 series which I know works; need to see, but you can certainly run Ultrix binaries anyway if that counts :) and QEMU and RPCEmu for the Archimedes. There's also Arculator for Windows. Conversely for people wanting to run a real OS on very different hardware, NetBSD runs on all of them (and depending on the model maybe the Apollo as well) and Linux runs on the Archimedes. -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Moving house!
Hi all, I'm moving house. As the place I'm moving to is a little smaller (well really about the same size, but fully-furnished and a bit full of junk) I'm getting rid of some stuff. These include but are not limited to (in no particular order): Some PCs Some VAXStation 3100s A DECStation 3100 A MicroVAX 3300 an LA36 dot-matrix printer terminal (quite big) Possibly a couple of CP/M machines Possibly a CPM/86 machine (all of these fairly small) Some more PCs Possibly one of those HP scanner/printer things, but I don't have the funny parallel cable Some other computers, possibly including an HP Apollo desktop and an Acorn Archimedes (not decided about the Archie yet). Hohner Organetta electric piano, with stand You can pick them up, or I can probably drop them off. Nothing except the LA36 is particularly big. Gordon ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
