DEC OSF/1 V2.0 on DECstation :) (MIPS)

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Fri Nov 14 21:24:14 2003

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> How does it compare to Ultrix 4.5 on the same system? Not that I've ever
> gotten Ultrix up and running on my DECstation 5000/133 (it was purchased to
> run NetBSD).
Ultrix is faster, but since that is (a) a monolith (compared to the
Mach microkernel-based OSF/1) and (b) OSF/1 in itself is a lot more
"heavy", I think that could be expected. On the DS2100, it looks
like the 24MB is more of an issue than the CPU speed.

> BTW, you've gotten me thinking, does Tru64 V5 support LAT? If so I just
> might have to play around with setting up a spare box to run Tru64.
Yup, LAT comes with it.

--f
Received on Fri Nov 14 2003 - 21:24:14 GMT