UNIX for the VAXstation or AlphaStation

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Saturday 28 February 2009, Allison wrote:
> >Subject: Re: UNIX for the VAXstation or AlphaStation
> >   From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
> >   Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:47:24 -0800
> >     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
> > Posts"	<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> >
> >UNIX is a waste of good DEC hardware! :-)  DEC never sold a UNIX
> >variant that would run on a VAXstation 4000/60.  I think NetBSD and
> >OpenBSD will both run on it.  I'll confess that OpenBSD at least
> > used to rock on Alpha and can handle a machine with less RAM than
> > OpenVMS expects.  Your choice of OS's are a lot wider for the
> > Alpha.
>
> DEC sold Ultrix32 (unix BSD flavor) and it was installable on most
> VAXen. I have 4.2 running on a UVAX2000.

I'll even admit that I got my 11/780 *specifically* to run UNIX on 
them.... I want to set up a "Purdue recipe" dual-VAX and run 4.3BSD on 
it; you can run VMS on any old VAX, Alpha, or some Itaniums... VMS on 
an 11/780 is a waste of a good 11/780. :)  (Ok, fine, I'll admit to 
running VMS on my 11/780, but that was mostly to see if OpenVMS 7.x 
would actually run, how "quickly" it would run, and to get 4.3BSD's 
boot loader onto the console media.)

Pat
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