On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 08:18:33PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Thursday 03 June 2004 19:36, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > ...I don't have any real interest in running Unix on DEC HW.
>
> Actually, I don't have any PDP running UNIX yet, but would like to at
> some point.
My interest is closing the circle on an old project... I ran 2.9BSD on
a real 11/24, 17+ years ago, but two RL02s is not enough space to do a
lot, including load all the sources and rebuild the kernel. It wasn't
my first UNIX experience, by far, but it was my first UNIX experience
on my own hardware ($300 for the CPU, several hundred dollars more for
an RL11, KT24, memory cards, etc.)
> VMS, of course, is the only proper OS to run on a VAX. ;)
Well... when I got my start, we ran both VMS (3.6) and 4BSD on VAX-11/750s
and 11/730s (then, later, VMS 4.x and Ultrix-32)... I see the smiley, but
I have to chime in that back in the day, you ran into both, depending on
what circles you travelled in.
> Alphas, however, are pretty nice at running Linux, but that's not real
> Unix (or on-topic by age).
And Alphas are pretty nice at running VMS, presuming you have wads and
wads of physical memory. I had a good time babysitting the Alpha cluster
at H&R Block before coming back to the Ice. It was fun to be using VMS
on a daily basis again.
-ethan
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