3 Jun
2004
3 Jun
'04
1:49 p.m.
catagory, but
I don't have any real interest in running Unix on DEC
HW.
Shh! Don't let Michael Sokolov hear you! Actually, I don't have any PDP running UNIX yet,
but would like to at
some point. VMS, of course, is the only proper OS to run on a VAX. ;)
I've considered running Unix on a PDP-11, but have never gotten around to
it. Last time I tried to get 2.11BSD up and running it didn't like my
Viking disk controller, though that bug has since been fixed.
Alphas, however, are pretty nice at running Linux, but
that's not real
Unix (or on-topic by age).
Actually unless I'm mistaken Linux on Alpha's is now ontopic, or if it
isn't, it is sure getting close. Linux itself has been ontopic for almost
three years.
Alphas also do quite well at running BSD, I ran OpenBSD on one of mine for a
few years. Though I've now downgraded that system to a Sparc 5/110.
I really hate to see systems that can run VMS wasted running Unix.
Zane