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Alexander Schreiber wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 05:28:40PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Alan Frisbie wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Sorry, you are out of luck with this one. VMS only runs
on VAX, Alpha, and Itanium hardware. The DECStation 5000
is, as I recall, a SPARC chip.
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<pre wrap="">MIPS.
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<pre wrap="">My error. You are right. They say that your memory
is the second thing to go, and I can't remember what
the first one is. :-)
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<pre wrap="">:)
NetBSD is probably the operating system to use with a DECSystem 5000.
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Keep in mind that DECstation != DECsystem
And yes, NetBSD runs fine on DECstations.
Regards,
Alex.
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DEC used the name "DECsystem" for two unrelated products. One was the
PDP-10 based 36 bit timesharing system that ran TOPS-10 and the like.
The other is a headless DECstation. A DECsystem 5000 is a DECstation
5000 without a keyboard or video controler, both are intended to run
Ultrix.<br>
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I run Linux on a DECsystem 5000/240. No, there isn't a 36-bit port of
Linux. That would be an interesting project. Too interesting.
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