[Simh] Slightly off topic: UNIX for Alpha?

[Supratim Sanyal]

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> On Mar 12, 2020, at 12:49 PM, Gary Lee Phillips <tivo.overo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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