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+ | ====== Minnie is Now 64-Bit ====== | ||
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+ | 12th December 2015 | ||
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+ | I've just moved my web site, [[http:// | ||
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+ | When I was at uni (in the late 80s) I got into the [[https:// | ||
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+ | By the time I'd got Minix working, I was hooked on operating systems and I wanted to contribute back to the community. Australia had just been [[http:// | ||
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+ | Each time I bought a new computer to upgrade my home system, I would pass the old hardware down to become the new minnie. So I've gone through all the major changes in PC hardware in the past 30 years: RLL, ESDI, IDE, ATA, 16-bit AT, 32-bit '386 etc. I used to keep a table of the hardware changes: | ||
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+ | |**Period Starting** |**CPU** |**Disk Capacity** |**Memory** |**Net Connection** |**Operating System** | | ||
+ | |Early 1990 |10MHz 8088 |30M RLL |640K |10Base2 |KA9Q NOS | | ||
+ | |Circa 1992 |20MHz 286 |80M ESDI |2M |10Base2 |JNOS | | ||
+ | |March 1993 |33MHz 386SX |140M ESDI |4M |10Base2 |386BSD 0.1 | | ||
+ | |Circa 1994 |40MHz 386DX |140M ESDI - 1G IDE |8M |10Base2 |FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 | | ||
+ | |Circa 1996 |100MHz 486 |4G - 16G IDE |16 - 32M |10BaseT |FreeBSD 2.2.8, 3.2 | | ||
+ | |May 2000 |400MHz Celeron |28G - 40G ATA |64M |100BaseTX |FreeBSD 4-STABLE | | ||
+ | |June 2004 |500MHz P3 |40G - 60G ATA |192M |100BaseTX |FreeBSD 4-STABLE | | ||
+ | |June 2005 |2.4GHz P4 |320G ATA |768M |1000BaseTX |FreeBSD 5-STABLE | | ||
+ | |June 2009 |2.4GHz P4 |500G ATA |768M |1000BaseTX |Ubuntu 9.04 | | ||
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+ | Around 2010 I moved minnie to a virtual machine hosted in America (we say "in the cloud" now); there was no point in trying to work out how to describe the new hardware, given that it's not real ;-) | ||
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+ | Minnie' | ||
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+ | FreeBSD was great fun: lots of source code, everything was configurable the way that you wanted. But at some stage I found that keeping the system patched against security vulnerabilities was difficult, and I had to recompile things from source each time there was a patch. I decided to defect over to [[https:// | ||
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+ | So now it's the end of 2015. I still love the command-line, | ||
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blog/minnie_is_now_64-bit.txt · Last modified: 2015/12/31 18:10 by wkt