[Simh] Off topic: ULTRIX question

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-07-12 21:41, David Holland wrote:
> Has Oracle changed its position with regards to patch availability for
> the freely available downloads of Solaris x86?
>
> Last I heard, patches were not available with out a support contract.
>
> ( Granted, HP is no better with its position towards VMS patches, but
> at least (last I checked) VMS wasn't terribly attractive option for
> the script kiddies. )
>
> Unfortunately, as far as I know, if you want a free (as in beer)
> patched Unix-alike, your choices are a Linux based distribution, or a
> Linux based distribution. Which is unfortunate.
>
> Here's hoping someone will set out to prove me wrong.   :-)

If you want to run on a VAX or Alpha, I don't think Linux even is an 
option. You'll have to go with some BSD. NetBSD and OpenBSD both have 
support, although if we talk VAXen, I think the support is slightly 
better in NetBSD.

	Johnny

>
> David
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>> -----
>> 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?
>> _______________________________________________
>> Simh mailing list
>> Simh at trailing-edge.com
>> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
> _______________________________________________
> Simh mailing list
> Simh at trailing-edge.com
> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
>


-- 
Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol