22 Apr
2002
22 Apr
'02
1:07 a.m.
At 11:35 PM 21/04/2002 -0600, Richard Erlacher wrote:
The "True 64-bit UNIX" for which my neighbor
bought his now-discarded Alpha
boxes is unfamiliar to me, but wasn't ULTRIX, since I'd heard that name
before. This was an Alpha-specific product, the vendor of which apparently
has gone under or something ...
Tru64 Unix is Compaq's (soon to be HP's) Unix offering for the Alpha
systems sold by Compaq. All new alpha based systems are supported under
Tru64. Digital sold some Alpha based systems which were Windows NT only.
Many of these systems cannot be convinced to run Tru64 (or OpenVMS for that
matter).
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