[Simh] Slightly off topic: UNIX for Alpha?

[Christian Brunschen]

NetBSD?

http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/alpha/

// Christian

On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 16:23, Gary Lee Phillips <tivo.overo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not precisely on topic here, I know. But this list shares a lot of
> relevant knowledge and experience and I have easy access, so I'm asking.
> Please forgive the distraction.
>
> I am a fairly active user of a Digital Personal Work Station (PWS) and
> generally run OpenVMS on it. I have a body of my own code for amateur radio
> antenna and signal modeling, etc. written primarily in Fortran. Looking at
> this unhappy end-of-life situation for hobbyist OpenVMS, I'm wondering if
> there is a UNIX available for that processor that doesn't require me to
> purchase an expensive license.
>
> Linux would also be acceptable, but the only Linux I found a couple of
> years ago that supported the Alpha was Gentoo, and that one didn't work all
> that well. It had no graphical interface, for one thing. I am familiar with
> UNIX and shell commands, that's not a problem. However, I do make use of
> graphical output and having no working XWindows is an issue. Debian used to
> have an Alpha port, but apparently that is no longer supported. There was a
> Windows NT for Alpha and I even have a copy, but it's very old and limited,
> and I have no Fortran or C compiler for it.
>
> DEC's own Tru64 UNIX would probably be ideal, but I have no idea whether
> it can be obtained any more or will run without an unobtainable license
> key. Any UNIX or UNIX-like system that can run GNU compilers or similar
> will probably work for me.
>
> Any thoughts on this? Comments welcome. Thanks.
>
> Gary, K9NZI
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