UTek V for 88K CPU?

From: Julian Richardson <JRichardson_at_softwright.co.uk>
Date: Tue Nov 24 03:34:51 1998

Hi all,

Clutching at straws here I know, but following the recent postings
regarding Tektronix hardware and UTek I thought I'd give it a shot
again...

Does anyone happen to have a copy of UTek V for an 88k CPU?
(specifically, for an XD88/10 Unix workstation?). I tried Tek a few
years back but they said they wouldn't support it any more, and the
total running number of XD88's in the world seems to reach the grand
total of 0!

I didn't think that anything else other than the XD88 ran UTek, but as
it does I may be able to get hold of enough data to get a basic system
running - maybe any 88k distribution of UTek was generic enough to get
my system to boot with console only (my guess is that the graphics
hardware's sufficiently complex to need it's own tape for install). The
disk in my XD88 was pretty dead as far as the machine was concerned when
I got it, in that there's a lot of filesystem errors, but if I could get
another disk running in parallel to boot off I *might* be able to
reconstruct a full system (failing being able to find the 'proper'
install tapes!).

Some kind soul put a basic root system from the original UTek install
media onto an ftp site for me a few years ago (several MB on a 1200baud
modem was a pain!) - I just got the file from the remote site before it
- and the person who put it there for me - disappeared off the face of
the earth, at which point I found there was an error in my local copy
and it wouldn't extract - arghghgh!

cheers for any help or info,

Jules
Received on Tue Nov 24 1998 - 03:34:51 GMT

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