Identifying Ultrix media

[J Blaser]

On 18 Nov 2008, Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. said:
 > While cleaning, I dug up some ULTRIX CDs I didn't know I had.
 >
 > Curious as to find out exactly what I have and if it is complete...
 >
 > [...]
 >
 > Does this mean I have Ultrix 4.2 for VAX and RISC,
 > Ultrix 3.1 for FAX and RISC, Ultrix 3.1 Update ?
 > What is Ultrix WS 2.0 (windowing system?) ?
 >
 > Trying to figure out what I have here and how complete/
 > incomplete it is.

I'm no expert, but I've done a little ULTRIX sleuthing myself over
the last couple of years, learning more about ULTRIX and how to
use it on my c. 1990 DECSystem 5400, which is RISC-based.

 From my experience, primarily with with ULTRIX 4.5, 4.3, and
4.2, I'd say that the 4.2 discs, one each for VAX and RISC,
would be considered a 'complete set' for each architecture.
The online documentation disc is probably a companion for
either or both of these 4.2 install discs.

I'm not acquainted with the earlier releases (though I'd like to
be), but it would appear that the ULTRIX-32 V3.1 with UWS V2.2
should be considered complete (for both VAX and RISC) since you
have both the ULTRIX OS + UWS on the one disc, which also looks
to supersede the ULTRIX-32 V3.1-UWS V2.1 UPDATE disc.

As for the V2.0, I have no idea if you have a complete ULTRIX +
UWS package, or if it is just the UWS.

- Jared