[Simh] Off topic: ULTRIX question

Christian Brunschen christian at brunschen.com
Sun Jul 12 12:33:25 EDT 2015


NetBSD <https://www.netbsd.org> runs on both VAX
<http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/vax/> & Alpha
<http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/alpha/> (even on pmax
<http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/pmax/>, DEC's MIPS-based systems).

// Christian

On 12 July 2015 at 18:27, Gary Lee Phillips <tivo.overo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also, no Solaris for the VAX or Alpha at all.
>
> OpenBSD has been on my radar, though I find all their versions and
> installation information really confusing. Some sources seem to
> indicate that OpenBSD runs and is supported on VAX as well as Alpha,
> but the versions referenced in VAX commentary appear to no longer be
> available. The Alphas are listed on the current distribution media,
> but since my primary installation target would be a Personal
> Workstation/Miata box, it's not clear whether the CD images will work
> on that as they are not listed as bootable there. Evidently they will
> work for the DS10, but I don't usually run that due to power
> consumption and fan noise.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the information everyone. I see we've filled up an
> entire digest with this now and it's really off topic (I think) for
> SimH so I'll continue my quest elsewhere.
>
> --Gary
> P.S. I do run SimH, obviously, with OpenVMS and now ULTRIX for what
> that's worth.
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