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  1. Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

  2. Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

  3. Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

  4. Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

  5. Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)

  6. @anaerin Ah, look! They also have a download area with multiple releases... including the newer 2.1 (which is distinct from 2.01).

    Silly of me to worry that the Internet would forget so easily about Amix...

    amigaunix.com/doku.php/downloa
    #Amix #Amiga #UNIX #SVR4

  7. Did you know that you could install #Commodore's official #UNIX #SVR4 on your real or emulated #Amiga?

    I'd like to give it a shot. The main obstacle will be obtaining the boot floppies and the installation tape. Yes, Amix was distributed on a QIC-150 tape 😎

    This is where I'd turn to one of several Amiga pirate boards in the '90s, but even those are long gone 😢

    amigaunix.com/doku.php/install
    #unixporn #retrocomputing

  8. Before moving to greener (and higher-paying 🤑) pastures, one of my two big "technical assistant" projects for #Comcast #Cellular was upgrading the engineers' Sun #Unix workstations from the #BSD-based #SunOS 4 to #SVR4-based SunOS 5 (#Solaris 2), and from #NIS / #YellowPages to NIS+.

    In hindsight, it was a bad idea to make both changes at once, but I was a kid entranced by novelty and not yet very considerate of my users during the inevitable downtimes. (3/6)

  9. Before moving to greener (and higher-paying 🤑) pastures, one of my two big "technical assistant" projects for #Comcast #Cellular was upgrading the engineers' Sun #Unix workstations from the #BSD-based #SunOS 4 to #SVR4-based SunOS 5 (#Solaris 2), and from #NIS / #YellowPages to NIS+.

    In hindsight, it was a bad idea to make both changes at once, but I was a kid entranced by novelty and not yet very considerate of my users during the inevitable downtimes. (3/6)

  10. Before moving to greener (and higher-paying 🤑) pastures, one of my two big "technical assistant" projects for #Comcast #Cellular was upgrading the engineers' Sun #Unix workstations from the #BSD-based #SunOS 4 to #SVR4-based SunOS 5 (#Solaris 2), and from #NIS / #YellowPages to NIS+.

    In hindsight, it was a bad idea to make both changes at once, but I was a kid entranced by novelty and not yet very considerate of my users during the inevitable downtimes. (3/6)

  11. Before moving to greener (and higher-paying 🤑) pastures, one of my two big "technical assistant" projects for #Comcast #Cellular was upgrading the engineers' Sun #Unix workstations from the #BSD-based #SunOS 4 to #SVR4-based SunOS 5 (#Solaris 2), and from #NIS / #YellowPages to NIS+.

    In hindsight, it was a bad idea to make both changes at once, but I was a kid entranced by novelty and not yet very considerate of my users during the inevitable downtimes. (3/6)

  12. Before moving to greener (and higher-paying 🤑) pastures, one of my two big "technical assistant" projects for #Comcast #Cellular was upgrading the engineers' Sun #Unix workstations from the #BSD-based #SunOS 4 to #SVR4-based SunOS 5 (#Solaris 2), and from #NIS / #YellowPages to NIS+.

    In hindsight, it was a bad idea to make both changes at once, but I was a kid entranced by novelty and not yet very considerate of my users during the inevitable downtimes. (3/6)

  13. Happy day! I've found and scored an old #VT220 (compatible) serial terminal for my #SVR4 #retrocomputing project.

    We're about to move offices and a bunch of cool stuff just appeared in a "dispose of this" pile. There's an old Sun machine in there too that I might have to save from the crusher. :awesome:

  14. New toy day! My little SBC is here that I plan to turn into a classic 90s Unix system running System V.

    Don't go hitting refresh for updates on that project, it's something I imagine I'll be stabbing at opportunistically for quite some time to come. There's a LOT missing from what I have to work with.

    I might blog soon about why SVR4 is so interesting to me though.

    #retrocomputing #unix #svr4

  15. I'm very excited because I finally found an #x86 SBC board that's reasonably priced and looks like it's perfectly specced for my weird #retrocomputing adventure where I try to build a #SVR4 system and see what I can get done with it.