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esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:

>In <35144@adm.brl.mil> Martin Pauley wrote:
>> Is there anyone out there who has built a Unix box and could tell me
>> about their experience.  
>>
>> It seems that the easiest way would be using components intended for
>> powerful DOS machines, since they are widely available.  I'm curious if
>> anyone, as an amateur, has constructed a box with a design different
>> from the PC standard.

>With current technology, the only reasonable way to homebrew a UNIX box is by
>leveraging the ISA/EISA 80[34]86 standard.  I wish it were otherwise, but the
>68000 family lost its war nearly a decade ago now and no RISC chip yet commands
>anything like the breadth of support the Intel family does.


What you build depends on what you want to do, but I have a generic econo-buy
PC with a cheapie SVGA card and a couple of IDE drives (in other words, a normal
386-33 clone) and I run color X11R5, usenet news, elm, etc. at home for free
using the "Linux" *nix...

see comp.os.linux for free.



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