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Grandpa returning to UNIX
Post 303025479 by fossiili on Saturday 3rd of November 2018 07:30:03 AM
11-03-2018
Grandpa returning to UNIX
On the late 1960s I got short hands on experience with a russian "small" computer. It vas a copy of DEC's VAX ... and running some version of BSD-Unix. After that I worked in a university following the development of computing. After retire I started collecting old pc's and installing Linux-distributions to them. I like using terminal to do simple tasks as for ex. uppdating programs.
Now in the LINUX MAGAZINE March 2018 I found a dvd containing NetBSD 7.1.1. wich I installed or tried to do that. Everything seemed to go well except that while trying to get connected to Internet using 4G-wireles the installer did not find the DNS-server. Anycase I was able to login to the terminal. And I know that advice can be foundd, for ex.NetBSD Documentation.
But some questions are still open in my mind. There are still some strategic questions. What about some other variants of BSD as Free- Open- PC-
What would you recommend for a grandpa age 84
Now in the LINUX MAGAZINE March 2018 I found a dvd containing NetBSD 7.1.1. wich I installed or tried to do that. Everything seemed to go well except that while trying to get connected to Internet using 4G-wireles the installer did not find the DNS-server. Anycase I was able to login to the terminal. And I know that advice can be foundd, for ex.NetBSD Documentation.
But some questions are still open in my mind. There are still some strategic questions. What about some other variants of BSD as Free- Open- PC-
What would you recommend for a grandpa age 84
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machid(1) User Commands machid(1) NAME
machid, sun, iAPX286, i286, i386, i486, i860, pdp11, sparc, u3b, u3b2, u3b5, u3b15, vax, u370 - get processor type truth value SYNOPSIS
sun iAPX286 i386 pdp11 sparc u3b u3b2 u3b5 u3b15 vax u370 DESCRIPTION
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See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
make(1S), sh(1), test(1), true(1), uname(1), attributes(5) NOTES
The machid family of commands is obsolete. Use uname -p and uname -m instead. SunOS 5.11 5 Jul 1990 machid(1)