Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Old commercial UNIX in '26 Date: 16 Jun 2026 13:44:11 GMT Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <110pk59$2tr$1@reader1.panix.com> <110rhd2$4fn$1@reader1.panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net c28HHvMlQ3z2n/cIp9E4Mwbct2Z5gkVTmXQ2p1WJp8hd3PpsiM Cancel-Lock: sha1:VjuhklucJ7NZQT+rnaUdjG/8hV8= sha256:0mzJjxR55eIn9a2WbBvYbZhKjD2bdUJIKjetMQDgSVA= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:235054 On Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:00:18 +0000, Dan Cross wrote: > In article , > Bob Eager wrote: >>On Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:40:12 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote: >> >>> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes: >>>>In article , >>>>Piper McCorkle wrote: >>>>>I've always been quite curious about commercial Unices, but when I >>>>>was born Linux had already put the writing on the wall for them. I >>>>>think it would be quite fun to set up a UNIX server in my homelab and >>>>>have it host some services (WWW, Gopher, Gemini, etc), but I've heard >>>>>plenty of horror stories about actually operating these things. Are >>>>>there any commercial UNIX variants from the '90s-early '00s that >>>>>aren't a complete and utter pain in the ass to administer? >>>>>(especially coming from a Linux background) >>>>> >>>>>I'm thinking of going with Solaris, if only because I have some >>>>>hardware (a Sun Fire system in unknown condition) that I could try to >>>>>restore. But I know the installation process will definitely be a >>>>>pain in the ass. The system doesn't have an optical drive, so I'll >>>>>need to install Solaris over the network. No clue how to set up the >>>>>server necessary for that - hopefully I can do it on OpenIndiana! >>>> >>>>I hate to be the one saying it, but ... it wasn't that cool. :-) >>> >>> As a long-time SVR3/4/4.2MP user, I found SunOs foreign, but Solaris >>> was much more comfortable to work with. >>> >>> I have a T1 in storage, with an external SCSI CDROM. Have no idea if >>> it still works. >>> >>> >>>>Something that is kind of fun is to set up 4.3BSD on an emulated VAX, >>>>though. >>> >>> I recently got VMS running on simh - it's been fun to revisit the late >>> 70's and early 80's. I started on a PDP-8 (TSS8.24) in 1976, >>> followed by the HP-3000 in 1977 and the VAX in 1979. I now have all >>> three running in simulation for old-times-sake. >> >>I take it you found a PAK generator for VMS. >> >>Thew HP simulator guy broke away from the SIMH 4 project as it was (a) a >>moving target and (b) the scandal about trying to restrict the code was >>getting messy. The latest official versions are here: >> >> https://simh.trailing-edge.com/hp/ >> >>(I am basing my new simulator on the Classic SIMH for similar reasons). > > OpenSIMH was supposed to fix this, I thought? Yes, but he'd gone by that time. And the moving target is probably still there.