[TUHS] What do you currently use for your primary OS at home?

[Clem Cole]

Like Marc Donner, my primary system, UNIX or otherwise, in which I'm typing
this message, is a current late model MacPro (arm/Sonoma) - which I
switched to Apple's UNIX flavor about 20+ years ago and have yet to look
back. That said, I have almost every OS that runs on x86 from different
Linux flavors and BSDs, plus lots of different I/O controllers for
conversion in my basement.   Further, I also have a number of historical
(non-Intel or Arm-based) computers on my different ethernets.   FWIW: I
also have a ton of SCSI equipment that's either on a FreeBSD Box (most
often), or I have a RATOC SCSI to USB2 controller cable that 'just works'
on my Mac and/or any x86 laptop I have around.  It is known to talk to the
disks as well as recently discussed Archive Viper QIC drives. That said,
I've never tried the USB to SCSI cable with a Linux -- only MacOS and
Winders (I never needed to use it with anything else).   Also, I have never
tried that interface with 9-track, which is on the FreeBSD systems SCSI
chain driven by an on-motherboard Adaptec PCI to SCSI. The only real issue
I have had trying to use SCSI peripherals with MacOS is that traditional
BSD <sys/mtio.h> is not included in the last N versions of the Apple
developers tool kit, making a compilation of old tape-based C code a PITA.
Still, if you install the controller and can manage to rebuild -- it all
seems to work fine.

Clem
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