No difference at all. You can put a framebuffer in a DECsystem 5000 and
it becomes a DECstation 5000. When you bought a CPU upgrade from DEC, you
would get two faceplates. One that says DECstation and one that says
DECsystem.
They're MIPS-based. If you tell me what model it is, I can give you more
information. You don't need to run Ultrix on them. If you want to run a
more modern OS, you can run NetBSD/pmax on them. I have a *lot* of these
machines. They're pretty nice. I've run them for years at home.
You should just be able to do something like boot -s #/vmunix or something
like that. Check
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/pmax/ and click on Supported
Hardware or something like that. It should have more information than you
would even need.
Peace... Sridhar
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Fred deBros wrote:
> Hi
> I have a bunch of these boxen, storage boxen with Ultrix included.
> Looks like the decserver runs serial to a VT only, no framebuffer. What
> other differences are there?
> Any good info source?
> I plan to get them going, so I will have to crack the pwd...something
> like starting in single user-mode...i lost the ref, anybody have a trick
> here?
>
>
> Fred
Received on Sun Apr 13 2003 - 16:51:21 BST