DECstation 5000/125

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Fri Jan 8 19:47:11 1999

<Okay, okay, so a DECstation 5000/125 isn't very "vintage". But I did manag
<to save one from certain death from my grad school (Carnegie Mellon), and i
<has a nice big 21" monitor, two big 5 1/4" SCSI drives (each around 1/2 a
<GB)... and no bootable OS.
<
<It used to run Mach (I was on the Mach project at CMU), but I'd really lik
<to run VMS on the thing.
<
<Does anyone know how/where/if I can get VMS loaded onto this guy?

No you can't. It's not a VAX or Alpha, it's a MIPS processor so the choices
other than MACH is UNIX or some flavor of unix.

Allison
Received on Fri Jan 08 1999 - 19:47:11 GMT