Symbolics Genera

[Mark Davidson]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Alexandre Lagüe-Jacques
<alexandre.laguejacques at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to those who responded publicly and privately to my request for
> information.

I'm going to add a bit more here... :)

> It appears that OpenGenera, the port of Genera to the Alpha running Tru64,
> is the quickest way to gain exposure to the operating system. (Which is why
> you'll notice my previous messages concerning one of my misbehaving Alphas.
> The other is running OpenVMS 8.3 -- no touch!) Will try to get my hands on a
> copy.

Unless things have changed, OpenGenera was far more expensive than
some of the older Symbolics machines that David sometimes has for
sale.  For example, if he still has MacIvory boards, that's several
thousand dollars cheaper than OpenGenera.

> The hardware -- i.e. a real Symbolics computer or alternatively an Alpha or
> a Mac with the necessary hard or software -- can be had from the source
> (David Schimdt) but it's not cheap and he's based in Virginia. Which is not
> to say that it's not an interesting offer -- I just need to try the OS
> first!

He also has an office in LA, if that helps. :)

Mark