[sclug] Last night, Toshiba laptop and XENIX

[David Stuart Cowan]

Hi all,
Great to meet you guys last night in the Back of the beyond. I have been meaning to visit for quite a while now. 
I have decided to download an use DSL Linux (Damn small linux) on the Toshiba techra laptop from last night.
I may also try Syllable OS or another really small liunx. 
I would be interested in getting my hands on Xenix also, if the disks can be found on the net sometime.
Until the next meeting. 
See you all again
David Cowan 
www.davecowan.co.uk
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> From: David Given <dg at cowlark.com>
> Subject: [sclug] The competition
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> Talking about non-Linux systems yesterday... (I'm ignoring the BSDs, as
> being modern, serious, useful operating systems they're not very
> interesting.)
> 
> Haiku --- aka BeOS, the Next Generation!
> https://www.haiku-os.org/
> A very elegant, lightweight single-user OS with a thoroughly familiar
> Posix command line. Supports WEP but no WPA yet. Needs at least 96MB of RAM.
> 
> Syllable --- similar, but different.
> http://web.syllable.org/Syllable/index.html
> Never used this, don't know what it's like. Allegedly even smaller, and
> will run in 32MB of RAM.
> 
> ReactOS --- GPL Windows!
> http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html
> A GPL reimplementation of Windows. I suppose that's a good thing if you
> like Windows.
> 
> Minix 2 --- as old as old school gets
> http://minix1.woodhull.com/current/2.0.4/
> Andy Tanenbaum's famous Unixoid. Very hardcore, but will run in
> staggeringly small systems --- there's even a version that will run on
> 8086 XT PCs (it's worth a try just for novelty value). Very, very
> limited driver support.
> 
> There are others --- Amoeba? Inferno? Plan 9? But they're *really*
> weird. And I still haven't found a source for Microsoft Xenix yet...
> 
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> ? telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out
> ? how to use my telephone." --- Bjarne Stroustrup
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