Re: archives

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Eirik Seim:
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> On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Michael Shalayeff wrote:
> 
> > Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Eirik Seim:
> > > Hi,
> > re
> > 
> > > Only archive I found using google is this:
> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-hppa
> > 
> > do you expect to find a photographic memory
> > wonderkids here? (;
> 
> Sort of.  I figured porting a great OS to an excellent 
> hardware platform would attract all kind of geniouses :)

hardware is kinda screwed up though (;

> > > Could anyone confirm that this is a more or less
> > > complete archive, before I start asking stupid 
> > > questions? :)
> > 
> > a sure way to avoid stupid questions is
> > to read www and man pages...
> 
> I really thought I had, but I must have been reading plat.html
> a bit too fast.  Suddenly a lot of my (stupid) questions were
> answered..

cool (;

> Anyways, i've got this 735/125, and will possibly get a 715/100 
> next week (thank you HP for discontinuing 10.20 :) ), and after 
> I'm done toying around with IDS/9000 (provided they'll run hp-ux 
> 11.x at all), I'd love to run OpenBSD and if I can, help improving 
> the port.

715/100 should work better for now.

> I don't think donating the machines themselves would be a good 
> idea, as I'm located in norway, but the 735/125 has a weird HP PSI
> (Programmable Serial Interface) EISA-card that I'll happily donate
> if anyone can make use of it.  I'll locate the part# if it sounds
> interesting.

eisa is not an immidiate goal but if smb in europe
will want to play w/ that card guess they are reading the list (;

anyway, there is a snapshot available on the ftp.
it has a number of problems, some already fixed.
i plan to update it around this weekend once i fix
the stupid c++ problems.

there is no working scsi driver for now, only nfs root.
i've heard it runs multiuser (;

cu

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    paranoic mickey       (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)