DEC 7000 (AXP) startup

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Sun Mar 23 01:34:01 2003

> Turns out that this machine once ran under OSF/1 as all the disk
> had OSF/1 bootblocks on them. But unfortunately none of the disks
> I had left were actually bootable (missing osf_boot or causing
> some panic. So, my question is, where can I get a UNIX system
> for this machine? Are there any copies of OSF (bootables) around?
> How about DEC-UNIX? NetBSD/Alpha (or FreeBSD for that matter)
> won't run until we have fixed lack of an XMI bus driver. Are
> there any port-alpha people who are working on this XMI issue? (On
> the port-vax side it depends mainly on Ragge and the very few folks
> with VAX6000s to do that.)

DEC/Compaq used to offer Tru64 Hobbyist for about $100. It included CD's
and permanent license PAKs. Unfortunatly I don't know if they still offer
it, or where to get info on it.

Besides, why waste nice HW like that with Unix, put OpenVMS on it :^)

                        Zane
Received on Sun Mar 23 2003 - 01:34:01 GMT