[Simh] slightly off-topic question

[Davis Johnson]

Alexander Schreiber wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 05:28:40PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote:
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>>On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Alan Frisbie wrote:
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>>>>>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.
>>>>>          
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>>>>MIPS.
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>>>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.   :-)
>>>      
>>>
>>:)
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>>NetBSD is probably the operating system to use with a DECSystem 5000.
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>Keep in mind that DECstation != DECsystem
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>And yes, NetBSD runs fine on DECstations.
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>Regards,
>       Alex.
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DEC used the name "DECsystem" for two unrelated products. One was the 
PDP-10 based 36 bit timesharing system that ran TOPS-10 and the like. 
The other is a headless DECstation. A DECsystem 5000 is a DECstation 
5000 without a keyboard or video controler, both are intended to run Ultrix.

I run Linux on a DECsystem 5000/240. No, there isn't a 36-bit port of 
Linux. That would be an interesting project. Too interesting.
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