Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!tness7!tness1!nuchat!flatline!erict 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 References:Organization: a flat near the Montrose, Houston, Tx. Lines: 30 Summary: 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. :-) -- Skate UNIX or go home, boogie boy... [Obscure joke goes here] J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007 ..!bellcore!tness1!/