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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