[HECnet] 3B1s and "old school" UNIX, was Re: [HECnet] US Seller with some interesting stuff

[sampsa at mac.com]

On 27 Nov 2012, at 13:48, Peter Coghlan <HECNET at beyondthepale.ie> wrote:


If memory serves, the UNIX dialect that they run is SysV release 2.
It's a fairly complete SysV implementation, with a nice, low-overhead
GUI called "UA", for User Agent.   There is no networking, but there's a
(rare) Ethernet card for the machine, which was shipped with an IP stack
written by Wollongong.   The IP stack ran in short spurts between
crashes, but you could use it to get stuff on or off the machine.

Well there's always Kermit and UUCP - and one could always plug a few serial
ports into a DECserver or something to get "networking" into the device :)


To bring this on-topic for the list, could it run DECnet?


As there's no actually properly functional IP stack, I'd say probably not :)

But we could still hook it up via a DECserver or a captive account on one of the boxes on HECnet..

Sampsa