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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: State of the 3.0 public beta test
Message-ID: <1080@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 88 00:14:45 GMT
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In article , eric@snark.UUCP writes:
> Then we come to the oddballs. An Amdahl, a couple of Pyramids, a MIPS machine,
> an HP9000 and even a UNIVAC (excuuuse me, that's `UniSys') 1100. For beta-ing
> purposes, I love those weird machines -- and I'd like to see more of them.
> 
> So bring on your ones-complement machines, your multiprocessor boxes, your
> vectorizing supercomputers, and your crufty ancient mainframes. The more
> bizarre your machine is the better I'll like it (you still need to be a UNIX
> site, though; I'd like to port to VMS and OS/2 but those could take a while).


One serious quesiton:

Does anyone plan on doing an OS-9 port?  Several companies are starting
to pick this up, plus, the RatShack CoCo3 running Lev II OS-9 is pretty
boffo (especially for an 8bit machine).  I don't see any reason it
wouldn't be able to support news -- it's pretty damn close to Unix,
it multitasks, and you can put megs and megs of HD on it.  The 68xxx
based OS-9 boxes are great, there's just not a lot of them out there.
(best coco3 setup I've seen yet: 512K RAM, 30Mb HD, 3 floppy drives,
2Mhz 68b09e 8-bit processor.)

Oh well, just a question.

If you want, I'll port to a RatShack Model I, Level II.  :-)
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