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Xenix -> AT&T/Convergent System V Release 2 on 3B1 -> Apollo DomainOS on a pair of DN3500's -> Linux There were a few detours along the way, like a short time with straight MS-DOS plus Waffle on an Epson 8088, a few months with DESQview on a 386SX with 5MB, a short run with Windows 95 (on that...

Correction: in looking back in my email storage from back in the day, I downloaded SLS after I met my wife, not before. Downloaded from Mac's Place BBS over 9600 bps dialup. Looking in Usenet archives, Peter announced SLS as being available for download 8/15/1992; the May 1992 date is referred...

I ran SLS for a short time a month or so before I met my wife, and I met her on August 14, 1992. But SLS was not the only 1993 Linux distribution. See https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-linux-distributions-of-1992 for more, including TAMU, which also had XFree86 included. Yes, SLS was...

In May of 1992 you also had the option of Softlanding Linux System (SLS) to install the nearly newborn Linux kernel with lots of packages, including X11. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System

With solid hardware it's not too much work. I'm the head of the technology department of this small nonprofit (that from the outside looks much bigger than it really is due to the equipment we have and the work we do). I get one RLU with two L5-20's and a pair of gigabit Ethernet connections...

Fibrechannel or iSCSI is the only good way; PCI-X cards are available for both of those. I'm actually using iSCSI with the single 1Gb/s NIC; not optimal, but serviceable. I had a fibrechannel card in it, connected to a Clariion CX3, but those take more power than they're worth, and the R515 at...

The one 300GB U320 I have is installed in one of my SGI O2's. Disk capacity is a definite issue. I have an external array rack for the x330, but haven't put it in the rack yet. Speaking of, here's the little beast in its natural habitat:

Worst as in slowest? I have a couple of dual Slot 1 systems here that still boot; I think one is a Pentium II and the other a Pentium III. Now I'm curious and will need to boot them up..... Thanks! :-) . One of them has an iomega Jaz 2GB drive and cartridge and is running NT 4. The other...

That would probably depend on the specific motherboard and BIOS I would think. You'd have to come through archived CPU support matrices and BIOS release notes to see.

Pentium III-S 1.4GHz every bit as fast as a P4 2GHz. The dual even more so. I need to run Unixbench on it, just haven't yet.

The Coppermine-T post reminded me that I had recently upgraded my IBM eSeries X330 from Debian 11 to 12. The little beast has dual Pentium III-S Tualatin processors, 4GB ECC registered RAM, and dual 146GB U160 (or maybe U320, I forget which) 10K RPM hard disks in software RAID 1. I know there...

There were 800, 866, 933, 1000, and 1133 MHz varieties; there's a 1000MHz one on eBay right now at https://ebay.us/m/Hp4HII There is a heat spreader similar to Tualatin on the chip. The Wikipedia entry: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_III#Coppermine_T I have seen a few of these in the...

I'm sorry if I didn't write it clearly. I wasn't trying to say that you needed to go eZ80 to be able to use those techniques; rather, I was trying to say that these techniques would also work with eZ80 if you wanted to use one in Z80-compatible mode, since it is also effectively a 64K bank size...

TRS-80 4P uses 32K banking, with the mapping of the switched bank selectable to either swap out 0000-7FFF or 8000-FFFF. So you run a CP/M setup with the banks switching around the lower 32K; TRSDOS or LS-DOS switches out the upper 32K. You get 32K "resident" and three 32K switchable banks in...

With a single active PSU the fans will run at turbojet speed, if it's like most other PowerEdges. To get the fans slower you need both PSUs powered and software running on the operating system you're running; the iDRAC (if so equipped) controls the fans.