Lisa Xenix does have Micnet, and demoing that was one of the things I wanted to show off! Getting it to talk between systems would be super cool. I imagine a Micnet between a Lisa and another system hasn't been done for years. I would love to hang a couple terminals off of the system - problem is the Lisa only has 2 serial ports. There was a 4 port serial card made for use with Xenix, I'll try to convince someone on the Lisa List who has one to lend it to me. Does the museum have a VT100 or similar vintagey terminal I could borrow? Barring that I have a PS/2 P70 I could use as a terminal. Thanks for the input everyone! PS: Evan, I'll get my submission written up now :) -J On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Peter Cetinski <pete@pski.net> wrote:
I'm working on planning my exhibit for this year. To keep things not identical to last year I was thinking of showing Xenix on my Lisa. However I'm worried the exhibit won't be interesting enough to the general public (Oh look, it runs. Oh look, it's Unix. Oh look, there's a clunky menu interface you can bring up.)
How about setting up a Micnet network between all the Xenix machines that show up? I've been looking to try it and I have a 100' RS232 cable I've been looking for an excuse to use. Does Lisa Xenix have Micnet? I believe it showed up in System III. We have it in the last version of Tandy Xenix v3.2.
Of course games are always interesting... however as far as I know none were made.
We have a 7 disk set of Xenix games in the model2archive. I don't know if they are compatible with other Xenix. It has a pretty good Star Trek implementation.
https://github.com/pski/model2archive/tree/master/Software/Xenix/Xenix_Games
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