Goat
It really, truly is 'Sieg'...as has been pointed out eine Zieg is a goat!
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An insightful comment. It really was fun and an awful lot if what we did was unexplored territory. My first job was getting an ICL mainframe to talk to remote data acquisition devices and download data that was previously sent on paper tape. When it eventually worked I was beside myself with joy, it truly seemed like magic.
I have one Intel machine from 2007 and one from 2011, both running Linux, both doing useful work every day. Like Trigger's broom, neither is exactly as it was when new, then again, that's not even an option with a Mac. Neither would be much good at matrix inversion, but it's seldom I really feel the desire for something faster. If it ain't broke...
I flew a 172 from Bodmin to Leeds Bradford and back yesterday to save a friend 9 hours by public transport. The landing fee at a very empty Leeds Bradford airport was a reassuringly expensive £102. Still, we did get a very nice cup of coffee.
Quite so...it is a big hurdle going off-piste like this, if you will forgive the mixed metaphor. If you Google 'how do I do xyz in Debian/Fedora/whatever' you will most likely get a reply, this... probably not so much. A distro for the adventurous, methinks, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Anyone interested in this sort of thing should have a look at the Usagi Electric videos on YouTube, especially the ones about the Bendix G15. Dave Lovett is a genius at getting old stuff to work. He's also a great presenter and seems like a good guy.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnw98JPyObn3QSIwUz5Iv6NA1x-uGFqAa