<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div><br></div><div>Fwiw, netbsd was the first OS fully booted on simh vax. Vms took a lot more debuggibg. </div><br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From Alexander Schreiber <als@thangorodrim.ch> <br>Date: 07/13/2015 4:29 PM (GMT-07:00) <br>To Gary Lee Phillips <tivo.overo@gmail.com> <br>Cc simh@trailing-edge.com <br>Subject Re: [Simh] Off topic: ULTRIX question <br> <br><br>On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 10:04:43AM -0500, Gary Lee Phillips wrote:<br>> As far as I know, Solaris these days only runs on Intel hardware. I've<br>> tried it there, and it seems to devote way too much processor power<br>> and memory to making pretty windowed screen displays (a weakness it<br>> shares with most Linux distributions.)<br><br>Hmm? I run Linux on quite a number of different machines (and different<br>hardware architectures as well). Out of all of those, only four devote<br>_any_ amount of CPU and RAM to pretty displays: the workstations for my<br>wife and me and our laptops. Some of the others don't even have the<br>_hardware_ for showing pretty graphics (like the Edgerouter Lite,<br>whose only console is a serial one with a Cisco style connector).<br><br>> I guess I didn't make it clear that I'm looking for UNIX to run on VAX<br>> or Alpha hardware platforms.<br><br>Try NetBSD. For fun & giggles I ran NetBSD on simh/vax for a while.<br>Was surprising usable interactively, only disk access and compiles<br>where slow. NetBSD also is comparatively lightweight among modern<br>Unix systems.<br><br>Kind regards,<br> Alex.<br>-- <br>"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and<br> looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison<br>_______________________________________________<br>Simh mailing list<br>Simh@trailing-edge.com<br>http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh</body>