[rescue] Configuring SLIP, both (Unix) server and client ends (Dell Sys V rel 4 Unix)

[Andrew Jones]

On 06/30/2018 01:31 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> 
> Anyway, I'm burning some time at the "Virtually Fun" web site when an 
> article for Dell Sys V rel 4 Unix crosses my path again.
> 
> I've observed Dell do so many stupid things over the course of my IT 
> career, that I never thought I would ever want to touch anything 
> associated with that company, but, low and behold, I have Dell Unix up 
> and running in a VirtualBox VM, and, its pretty fun.
> 
> Read more here:
> 
> <https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2012/03/20/dell-unix-lives-again/>
> 
The cool thing about Dell UNIX was not the software, it was the hardware.

If you ran Dell UNIX on Dell EISA hardware, it could auto-configure all 
of the fiddly ISA bits at boot time, which was pretty darn cool by early 
1990s standards.