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From: eap@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Eric Pearce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: BSD Unix on 6150-135?
Message-ID: <28304@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 25 Feb 89 07:02:08 GMT
References: <1966@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Reply-To: eap@bu-it.bu.edu (Eric Pearce)
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Organization: BD&HR (Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers)
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In article <1966@nmtsun.nmt.edu> peter@hydrovax.nmt.edu says:
>Howdy,
>
>   We have been toying for some time with the idea of running 4.3 BSD on
>our RT, being as RT-AIX is not a useful operating system. The IBM reps
>locally are only aware of a 'Univerisity' package that includes hardware
>and software. They claim that there are hardware changes in the boxes 
>running 4.3 BSD. Does anyone know of a commercially available 4.3 OS
>for the RT that do not require hardware changes?
>
>Thanks
>Peter Blemel
>
>--

  As far as I know, there are no hardware differences that prevent you
  from running 4.3. If you plan to make it a usable workstation, you
  need to have a monitor such as the "megapel", as the smaller PS2-like
  vga ones are just too small for a windowing system like X.  It's well 
  worth your ime to switch over to 4.3, as most of the public domain software
  that I have tried will run with few changes.  It also comes with
  lots of neat software from Project Athena.  

 -e

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