Ultrix on an 11/730?

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Tue Feb 3 18:27:32 2004

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Curt vendel wrote:

> Ah! Sorry, I didn't get into Dec Vax stuff until 94' and didn't start
> working with Ultrix till 95' I remember we got into the lab I think it
> was a Dec Infoserver, their first webserver and it was running Ultrix as I
> recall, I really liked the way Ultrix worked, much better then Solaris and
> SunOS which I has also just gotten started using around 94' as well.
> Actually, I think the infoserver was running OSF Unix??? Hmmmmm, brain
> ain't what it used to be :-)
InfoServers were boot-load servers that ran a very rudimentary
system called ESS, which in turn was based on DEC's VAXeln runtime
kernel for embedded systems. It was designed to efficiently offer
disk (cd-rom and harddisk) and tape devices to the network, and
used DEC protocols called LAD (LASTport/disk) and LASTport/tape
for access to those "shared devices".

--f
Received on Tue Feb 03 2004 - 18:27:32 GMT