17 Sep
2017
17 Sep
'17
5:08 p.m.
On 17/09/2017, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
To kick a more relevant thread off, what was the
"weirdest" Unix system you
used & why? Could be an emulation like Eunice, could be the hardware e.g
NULL was not zero, NUXI byte ordering etc.
Does ersatz-UNIX count?
At one start-up, our servers were SPARC-based but we could only afford
Intel boxes on the desktops. We found that the MKS Toolkit on OS/2
Warp was the closest on the boxes, talking to the servers over X and
such. (EMX stuff was acceptable but it still sat on top of DOS. Warp
was odd in that it came with a full TCP/IP stack.)
N.