OSF/1 on MIPS (was: Re: 8086 (was Re: more talking to the press.))

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote: They did, and do, and thats what I assumed was the end of it. Until I hit some interesting documentation that spoke of the system as "Ultrix/OSF", and some searches later, it turned out that DEC started out with porting OSF/1 to their PMAX systems (MIPS based boxes, aka DECstation/DECsystem) and then adding a good deal of their Ultrix stuff onto it, *probably* intended as a successor to Ultrix. But, then came the Alpha, and they moved to just doing Alpha, and that's pretty much what we came to know: OSF/1 on Alpha, later Digital UNIX, later Tru64. Soon to be HPUX (no, dont get me started on that one.. pleez..) Several people helped me find that code, and I gathered a load of those boxes to see which will and which wont run it... :) If anyone has OSF/1 stuff (anything before DU 4.0g) pse contact me offlist. Cheers, Fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Sunnyvale, CA, USA