>
> Okay, okay, so a DECstation 5000/125 isn't very "vintage". But I did manage
> to save one from certain death from my grad school (Carnegie Mellon), and it
> 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 like
> to run VMS on the thing.
>
> Does anyone know how/where/if I can get VMS loaded onto this guy?
>
> Thanks all,
>
> - Joe
>
>
Decstations can't run VMS. They're MIPS machines, and VMS only runs on VAX and
Alpha. You CAN run Ultrix on it and have a fine bsd-ish unix workstation. You
might also look at freebsd, as I have this vague memory that there was a
Decstation port.
--
Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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