[Simh] slightly off-topic question

[Alexander Schreiber]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 05:28:40PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Alan Frisbie wrote:
> 
> >
> >>> Sorry, you are out of luck with this one.   VMS only runs
> >>> on VAX, Alpha, and Itanium hardware.   The DECStation 5000
> >>> is, as I recall, a SPARC chip.
> >
> >> MIPS.
> >
> > My error.   You are right.   They say that your memory
> > is the second thing to go, and I can't remember what
> > the first one is.   :-)
> 
> :)
> 
> NetBSD is probably the operating system to use with a DECSystem 5000.

Keep in mind that DECstation != DECsystem

And yes, NetBSD runs fine on DECstations.

Regards,
       Alex.
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