[Simh] Off topic: ULTRIX question

Gregg Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 12 11:38:54 EDT 2015


Hello!
Solaris also runs on SPARC. I have it running here on that. And yes
sadly Intel based Solaris is still a performance hog.

But its nice to know someone else is out there. Welcome to the party
Gary Lee Phillips.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Gary Lee Phillips
<tivo.overo at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, Solaris these days only runs on Intel hardware. I've
> tried it there, and it seems to devote way too much processor power
> and memory to making pretty windowed screen displays (a weakness it
> shares with most Linux distributions.)
>
> I guess I didn't make it clear that I'm looking for UNIX to run on VAX
> or Alpha hardware platforms.
>
> On 7/12/15, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote:
>>
>>> El 12/07/2015, a les 13:52, Gary Lee Phillips <tivo.overo at gmail.com> va
>>> escriure:
>>>
>>>
>>> I keep looking for a way to get a "real" UNIX going, hence the ULTRIX
>>> experiment. As far as I can tell, neither Tru64 nor HP-UX have any
>>
>> Wouln’t solaris qualify as a “real” UNIX?


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