On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Friday 14 November 2003 08:58, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
> > Fred (trying to get the !_at_#&*%@#$^ DECstation to boot OSF/1)
>
> Don't DECstations (aka MIPS machines) run Ultrix, not OSF/1?...
They did, and do, and thats what I assumed was the end of it.
Until I hit some interesting documentation that spoke of the
system as "Ultrix/OSF", and some searches later, it turned
out that DEC started out with porting OSF/1 to their PMAX
systems (MIPS based boxes, aka DECstation/DECsystem) and
then adding a good deal of their Ultrix stuff onto it,
*probably* intended as a successor to Ultrix.
But, then came the Alpha, and they moved to just doing Alpha,
and that's pretty much what we came to know: OSF/1 on Alpha,
later Digital UNIX, later Tru64. Soon to be HPUX (no, dont
get me started on that one.. pleez..)
Several people helped me find that code, and I gathered a
load of those boxes to see which will and which wont run
it... :)
If anyone has OSF/1 stuff (anything before DU 4.0g) pse
contact me offlist.
Cheers,
Fred
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