I've been building an old style UNIX (not Linux!) system that is very similar to one I owned and operated in the late 1980's to early 1990's, before the Internet got to be a big business.
Read on for some details...
I've based my system on AT&T UNIX System V release 4.2 running on early Intel Pentium computers with ISA and PCI busses and SCSI2 peripherals.
The Operating System I've chosen is Novell UnixWare 2.0, because it's old and has an old UNIX flavor, but is new enough to use ANSI C and have a full TCP/IP networking subsystem. This is important because I want to be able to run the old UUCP protocol on this system over tcp.
I have two desktop systems I'm using as servers, both old Compaqs I got for next to nothing. They each have some pretty nice hardware:
Wyvern
- Pentium III 625MHz CPU
- 128MB RAM
- Buslogic BT-946C SCSI2 controller
- 3Com 3C509 ISA ethernet controller
- 4.2GB primary SCSI drive
- 2.1GB secondary SCSI drive
- Toshiba SCSI 12x CD-ROM
- Tandberg SCSI QIC525 streaming tape drive
- Novell UnixWare 2.01
Cheops
- Pentium III 350MHz CPU
- XXX MB RAM
- Buslogic BT-906C SCSI2 controller
- 2.1 GB HP Surestore drive
- Archive Viper QIC tape drive
- Toshiba SCSI 12x CD-ROM
- 3Com 3C509 Ethernet
I've got them running reliably and have a lot of old software built for them. Now it's time to get them communicating with UUCP over tcp.
More later...
