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From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [TUHS] And now ... Weirdnix?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 11:08:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzzviMavPxdW+TjAx7_5LWeLbOJMjP1UOipvqxc2wRwQYg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8AA943A2-D6C0-4812-9C16-C09D1298754F@tuhs.org>

On 17/09/2017, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
> To kick a more relevant thread off, what was the "weirdest" Unix system you
> used & why? Could be an emulation like Eunice, could  be the hardware e.g
> NULL was not zero, NUXI byte ordering etc.

Does ersatz-UNIX count?

At one start-up, our servers were SPARC-based but we could only afford
Intel boxes on the desktops.  We found that the MKS Toolkit on OS/2
Warp was the closest on the boxes, talking to the servers over X and
such.  (EMX stuff was acceptable but it still sat on top of DOS.  Warp
was odd in that it came with a full TCP/IP stack.)

N.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-17 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-17  7:03 Warren Toomey
2017-09-17  7:28 ` arnold
2017-09-17  8:10   ` David Arnold
2017-09-17 12:52     ` Adam Sampson
2017-09-17 14:23     ` Steve Simon
2017-09-17 18:50   ` Chet Ramey
2017-09-17 19:01     ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2017-09-18 12:02     ` arnold
2017-09-17 14:49 ` Dennis Boone
2017-09-18  7:27   ` Nigel Williams
2017-09-18  8:31     ` arnold
2017-09-18 10:39       ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-09-18 11:59         ` Michael Kjörling
2017-09-19  1:54       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-09-19  7:07         ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-19 14:09         ` [TUHS] PR1ME - was " Toby Thain
2017-09-17 15:08 ` Nemo [this message]
2017-09-18 23:57 ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2017-10-04  5:58 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-10-04 16:15   ` George Michaelson
     [not found] <mailman.1035.1505674910.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-09-18 11:41 ` [TUHS] " David
2017-09-18 13:15   ` Chet Ramey

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