Hiyas,
OK. Yes, it *is* there. And running.
I managed to install a fairly weird tape kit containing V2.0 BL8
of DEC's OSF/1 UNIX offering for their MIPS-based "DECstation"
line of systems.
It actually runs pretty good. Even on a very small machine (the
first test system was a DS2100 (12.5MHz R2000 with 24MB ;-) it
works fine. Even LAT works like a charm :)
I can see why they didnt release this one, though.. it is quite
raw, unfinished in many areas (I had to really work and tweak
stuff before I got a prompt..) and they obviously never intended
this to work on serial-console systems :)
But.. yay. It works, now. Just for the record:
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(vaxlab)$ telnet mipsfair
Trying 10.0.11.89...
Connected to mipsfair.
Escape character is '^]'.
OSF/1 (mipsfair) (ttyp0)
login: root
Password:
DEC OSF/1 X2.0-8 (Rev. 155); Sun Nov 14 21:45:24 MET 1999
DEC OSF/1 X2.0-8.1 Worksystem Software (Rev. 133)
The installation software has successfully installed your system.
There are logfiles which contain a record of your installation.
These are:
/var/adm/smlogs/install.log - general log file
/var/adm/smlogs/it.log - log for it(8) utility
/var/adm/smlogs/install.FS.log - file system creation logs
/var/adm/smlogs/setld.log - log for the setld(8) utility
/var/adm/smlogs/fverify.log - verification log file
# uname -a
OSF1 mipsfair 2.0 2.0 mips
#
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For those who would like to play with it, contact me off-list.
If you happen to have OSF stuff lying around [*and* know where
to find it *evil smile*..] drop me a line, please!
Cheers,
Fred
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Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist
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Received on Fri Nov 14 2003 - 19:01:36 GMT