chaosforages, just because you get source code doesn't mean it's unix. the majority of available systems allow you to have at least some of the source code. BSD is not real unix, as it was not developed by american telegraph and telephone company. And real hardware would be anything you could get that unix to run on, but since you'd probably have to change the code and recompile in order to get it to run, maybe it would no longer be unix. i agree with void main. unix is unix, and it isn't as well.
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Originally posted by -ks:
Wow, was not my intention to create such a stir, just expressing my opinion. I've tried linux in the past and was not very impressed. Sorry if it offends anyone. I don't profess to know all the in's and out's as I don't do this for a living, I'm only a hobbyist. I do have experience on many unix flavors and found IRIX to be about the easiest to work with, at least for me. I started out with an old DEC PDP running 6th Edition, migrated to a VAX and MicroVAX, then the DECstation and VAXstations, all running Ultrix, but I did play around with RSTS/E and RSX a bit on the PDP's. Experimented a little with NetBSD on the DEC hardware, then migrated to the SGI's and IRIX. Currently have six systems in the collection along with two SUN SparcStation 5's running Solaris 8 at the moment. Pic's available upon request 
On a side note, I have two IBM systems available that I will probably never use and would like to get out of the basement due to space considerations. They are and IBM System/36 Baby and an AS/400 Advanced 9402/3xx. Both work fine, no problems, just don't have the time to do anything with them. The System/36 I have all the original documentation, manuals, and software for, the AS/400 has only what's on the disks. If anyone's interested, drop me a line by email. I'd hate for these to end up in a dumpster.
-ks
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That's an impressive lot of stuff you've got to use! i have very little experience of different systems and machines! maybe you don't like linux so much because of it's continuous work-in-progressness. It is something that sometimes irks me a bit too, that everything is always version 0.8.5beta and so on. very little projects want to claim they are ever finished. Still, this is a *good* thing. Open source linux projects are usually *nix/Xwindows projects which mean that any *nix system with X installed can run them. really, for most users, i can't see that there'd be much difference between SunOS running X, Solaris running X, Red Hat running X, Mandrake running X, BSD running X and so on. All the differences of course are in the administration, and even that is very similar from unix to unix, considering how different they really are!
As you say, it's just opinions, and i would love to have more experience of other systems so i could fill out my own opinion.
As for those two machines, what OSs can they run? DOS and CP/M? I haven't got a clue about either machine i am afraid. Not sure i would be able to take delivery all the way from Earth either...
PS and as for pictures, please do post them in the
Shameless screenshots thread, i'd love to see them. There is a thread somewhere where people were posting pictures of their computer setup but i can't find it now, i thought it was in the lounge section... i might start a new one, unless somebody else does first...
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