On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
> 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.
I have DEC OSF1 source (not sure what vintage) if you want it
-- ~120 MB tar.gz
>
> Cheers,
> Fred
> --
> Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist
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Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics
Received on Fri Nov 14 2003 - 11:42:07 GMT