[COFF] Re: Esix SVR4

[COFF] Re: Esix SVR4

[William Corcoran]

Hi Emanuel,  

I believe I may have the install disks for ESIX, SVR4.  It actually was distributed in this beautiful box with over 100 5.25” floppy disks.  

As things progressed, ESIX was distributed on a streaming tape cartridge.  That was so much faster than swapping floppy disks for the install. 

The nice thing about the ESIX SVR4 was the documentation.  It was essentially the AT&T SVR4 books with a white ESIX cover slapped on it.  

If you want to copy the disks and make them accessible to our UNIX community, let me know. Since it’s part of my collection I would ask that you return them to me.  Send me an email directly if you’re interested and I will see if I can locate them for you.  

Bill Corcoran

> On Jun 11, 2023, at 8:47 AM, emanuel stiebler <emu@e-bbes.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> anybody still has the install media for that?
> We used it in the office long ago, but I lost the install disk in my last moving :(
> 
> THANKS!

[COFF] Re: Esix SVR4

[Arthur Krewat]

There was a Consensys SVR4.2 as well, which I have a copy of. It 
involved a pile of 3.5" disks, and hopefully an Adaptec 1520 ISA SCSI 
adapter. Or a WD compatible MFM/RLL controller.

I had it running on VirtualBox once, but no network.

Back in the day, I ran Consensys SVR4.2 for a three-line UUNET node. 
kilowatt

This reminds me, I have the base install floppies, but not the entire 
suite. Time to get on that.

ak

On 6/26/2023 6:37 PM, William Corcoran wrote:
> Hi Emanuel,
>
> I believe I may have the install disks for ESIX, SVR4.  It actually was distributed in this beautiful box with over 100 5.25” floppy disks.
>
> As things progressed, ESIX was distributed on a streaming tape cartridge.  That was so much faster than swapping floppy disks for the install.
>
> The nice thing about the ESIX SVR4 was the documentation.  It was essentially the AT&T SVR4 books with a white ESIX cover slapped on it.
>
> If you want to copy the disks and make them accessible to our UNIX community, let me know. Since it’s part of my collection I would ask that you return them to me.  Send me an email directly if you’re interested and I will see if I can locate them for you.
>
> Bill Corcoran
>
>> On Jun 11, 2023, at 8:47 AM, emanuel stiebler <emu@e-bbes.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> anybody still has the install media for that?
>> We used it in the office long ago, but I lost the install disk in my last moving :(
>>
>> THANKS!

[COFF] Re: [JUNK] Re: Esix SVR4

[Arthur Krewat]

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Meant to say I have the base floppies *on disk **as images*, but not the 
entire pile.

On 6/29/2023 5:29 PM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> This reminds me, I have the base install floppies, but not the entire 
> suite. Time to get on that. 

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[COFF] Re: Esix SVR4

[emanuel stiebler]

On 2023-06-11 10:42, Charles H Sauer (he/him) wrote:

> I don't think I ever saw Esix hands on, but if memory serves, we at Dell 
> considered Esix the most serious & respectable rival to our SVR4. Dell 
> SVR4 images are readily available at various places. See 
> https://notes.technologists.com/notes/2008/01/10/a-brief-history-of-dell-unix/

I liked that one in your notes:
"Dell SVR4 finally seemed like real UNIX on a PC" :)

[COFF] Re: Esix SVR4

[Charles H Sauer (he/him)]

On 6/11/2023 7:46 AM, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> Hi,
> anybody still has the install media for that?
> We used it in the office long ago, but I lost the install disk in my 
> last moving :(
> 
> THANKS!

I don't think I ever saw Esix hands on, but if memory serves, we at Dell 
considered Esix the most serious & respectable rival to our SVR4. Dell 
SVR4 images are readily available at various places. See 
https://notes.technologists.com/notes/2008/01/10/a-brief-history-of-dell-unix/

Charlie

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