On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:09 PM Ethan Dicks via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:47 PM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Interesting. I have VENIX on a Professional 350 (it was one of the > > > machines I had on display for VCF East). I haven't tried fiddling > > > with VENIX on a Rainbow, though I did know it existed. > > > > Venix/PRO on a 380 here. I like it. Thinking about ways to make it > > primitively networked. > > There is a DECNA, if you can find one. It should work for 2.9BSD or > 2.11BSD so it wouldn't be that hard to adapt to Venix, I'd wager. > > Outside of that, SLIP/PPP? UUCP? > > -ethan > I'm really glad to see this discussion; I have a PDP-11/23+ waiting to be poked at, but didn't know about the Professional at all; it's interesting to see that Venix can run on the /23+ as well. Whether it's a good choice of OS (compared to, say, 2.9BSD) or not I don't know. -- Eric Christopherson
