[Simh] Slightly off topic: UNIX for Alpha?

[Gary Lee Phillips]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my UNIX question so quickly. Yes, I had
forgotten about the availability of BSD, which probably can meet my
requirements and I will look into both NetBSD and OpenBSD right away. The
PWS is a Miata-GL system with wide SCSI and should perform well with BSD if
I have a graphics card available that is compatible.

Gary, K9NZI

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:41 AM Julien Savard <juliensavard17 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You might want to take a look here :
>
> http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/alpha/
> https://www.openbsd.org/alpha.html
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 12:23 PM 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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