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HP-UX and Common Desktop Environment (CDE)

The HP-UX installation was successfully finished with a large text over a half of the screen saying “FAILURE!” written in ASCII art. The whole process took about ten hours and after an automatic restart, the system booted up in the graphics environment.

The CDE GUI is not as intuitive as the one on SGI IRIX but I can live with it. I was more surprised that all color schemes (about 20) looked ugly as hell. The guys who were responsible for this were probably on LSD. Otherwise, I cannot understand the color combinations they created.

On the bright side – although the CPU runs only on 100MHz, the overall feeling of speed is better than on 200-MHz SGI O2. I have only a low-end graphics card capable of 1280x1024 in 256 colors (actually it can combine one 256-color palette for an active window and second 256-color palette for the rest), it is very fast and has no problems with refreshing windows while moving.

Btw the system cannot use audio in the CDE until the network is fully configured. It wouldn’t be a true UNIX without such jokes.

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Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (MIPS) in QEMU emulating MIPS Magnum R4000 workstation.

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My early 90’s release of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego supports basically every graphic standard the PC had available at the time, so naturally I had to try them all. I did try some others, including IBM CGA and Tandy/PCjr over composite and amber-composite CGA in the IBM 5155, plus monochrome VGA via a PS/1 monitor, but Tumblr only allows for ten photos. Anyway, here’s Hercules on an IBM 5151, CGA on an IBM 5153, EGA on a Casper 5154 clone (my IBM 5154 is upstairs), Tandy/PCjr on an IBM 5153, and VGA on an IBM 8513.

I want to try to play some more stuff in EGA, despite starting out my vintage PC collection with an EGA monitor I haven’t done a ton of stuff that takes advantage of it. I get too caught up with cool hardware to actually play games or use software that take advantage of it.

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FACOM K was a series of computers from Fujitsu launched in 1984 / 1985.

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Upgraded the wall

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NTT DIPS-V30S

NUMBER OF CPUs: 1 MAX. MEMORY: 16 MB year: 1986

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