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That 25 seems a generous understatement. I don’t think you can build for Xenix, the most modern GCC that can target it is 2.7 and that’s already ancient, not t

That 25 seems a generous understatement. I don’t think you can build for Xenix, the most modern GCC that can target it is 2.7 and that’s already ancient, not to mention the network code. It’s probably “at some point it was running on those systems”.

kristopolous 3y ago
Right. I'm not speaking poorly on the curl project, (I'm actually one of their financial sponsors), I'd just want to see a bit more evidence of this claim. I've got an OpenVMS/Alpha, Next/68k and HPUX/PARISC machine in my closet. If we want to get modern software on there, let's roll, I'll fire them up.
- gattilorenz 3y ago
  I’m willing to fix that. And by “that”, I mean the fact that you have a Next in your closet :)
  - kristopolous 3y ago
    I got it for $25 about 25 years ago It's a pretty cool machine but I assure you it's extremely useless these days. The TIFF format it uses, for instance, no longer supported by imagemagick. It doesn't support modern DNS resolution and if you want NFS you'll need a legacy v3 server. The Ethernet is a blistering 10baseT and the SCSI drive doesn't crack 300MB. The ssh server exists but modern clients no longer support it's archaic protocol. You've got perl and zsh, that's nice. There's also some antique Apache for it so you can use WebDAV and you can get it to play mp3s in real time if they're mono channel and under 32khz (yes, that's what I meant)
    - gattilorenz 3y ago
      To be honest, that’s par for the course for a machine of that era. That doesn’t mean you cannot waste some time having fun with it: I’ve ported some software to Xenix (including Doom, sort-of-working: https://github.com/gattilorenz/Xenix-doom https://github.com/gattilorenz/Xenix-doom), and while completely useless it’s intellectually stimulating. But geez, 25$… that’s a nice thrift find!

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That 25 seems a generous understatement. I don’t think you can build for Xenix, the most modern GCC that can target it is 2.7 and that’s already ancient, not t

by gattilorenz 3y ago

kristopolous 3y ago
Right. I'm not speaking poorly on the curl project, (I'm actually one of their financial sponsors), I'd just want to see a bit more evidence of this claim. I've got an OpenVMS/Alpha, Next/68k and HPUX/PARISC machine in my closet. If we want to get modern software on there, let's roll, I'll fire them up.
- gattilorenz 3y ago
  I’m willing to fix that. And by “that”, I mean the fact that you have a Next in your closet :)
  - kristopolous 3y ago
    I got it for $25 about 25 years ago It's a pretty cool machine but I assure you it's extremely useless these days. The TIFF format it uses, for instance, no longer supported by imagemagick. It doesn't support modern DNS resolution and if you want NFS you'll need a legacy v3 server. The Ethernet is a blistering 10baseT and the SCSI drive doesn't crack 300MB. The ssh server exists but modern clients no longer support it's archaic protocol. You've got perl and zsh, that's nice. There's also some antique Apache for it so you can use WebDAV and you can get it to play mp3s in real time if they're mono channel and under 32khz (yes, that's what I meant)
    - gattilorenz 3y ago
      To be honest, that’s par for the course for a machine of that era. That doesn’t mean you cannot waste some time having fun with it: I’ve ported some software to Xenix (including Doom, sort-of-working: https://github.com/gattilorenz/Xenix-doom https://github.com/gattilorenz/Xenix-doom), and while completely useless it’s intellectually stimulating. But geez, 25$… that’s a nice thrift find!