uVaxen & Fixing Basic Proggies

From: Paul Thompson <thompson_at_mail.athenet.net>
Date: Sat Dec 4 20:24:11 1999

Given DEC's attitude and price for the Ultrix y2k update a hobbyist
version seems unlikely.

On the other side, I was able to download the AIX 4.1.5 Y2k update for
free from IBM, and that is a live operating system.

Now only my DECsystem 5400 (ultrix) remains Y2k unready.

Paul


On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Clint Wolff (VAX collector) wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> > <2) I don't believe there is any sort of hobbyist distribution of Ultrix, ho
> >
> > Ultrix was never released and I suspect never will. My guess is it has a
> > lot of the ATT/BSD code that was encumbered.
> >
>
> Since a license for ATT source code is now available from SCO unix for
> $100, perhaps DEC can be convinced to release Ultrix as well.
> Unfortunately, I have no idea how one would go about it...
>
> >
> > Allison
> >
>
Received on Sat Dec 04 1999 - 20:24:11 GMT