8 Oct
2007
8 Oct
'07
1:09 a.m.
On 10/7/07, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
There is. Finding it might be tricky, though, and I forget what
versions run on the 11/750, but ISTR we started with Ultrix 1.1
sometime around 1988 (and it wasn't particularly new then).
On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:07:03 -0600
J Blaser <oldcpu2 at rogerwilco.org> wrote:
> 2. Is the L0005 or the L0008 preferred? Which one is easier to use
> with VMS? With NetBSD?
There are no OS dependencies that I am aware of, beyond how much
physical RAM you have to stuff into the box. We ran 4.0BSD and 4.1BSD
(and VMS 3.4, I think) on an 11/750 w/2MB. When our leased system
went away, I added the extra memory line to the backplane and took
that same 11/750 to 8MB, where it still remains. On that machine, we
ran VMS 4.x and various versions oUltrix.
(Gee, a random
thought just hit me...is there ULTRIX for this beastie?)
There should be ULTRIX
for the 11/750. An other option is 4.3BSD-Tahoe. You can get it from
TUHS or the CSRG
CDs. Once I instaled it on a MV II, that was upgraded to a MV III+ after
install. It was really fun to work with that old software. (And it felt
much faster then NetBSD. No surprise, given the 15 years of software
developement in between. Though, NetBSD is astonishing efficient on
"old" hardware, yet giving contamporarily features like IPv6.)
Unless you are a dedicated DEC masochist, I can recommend exploring
4.3BSD-Tahoe vs Ultrix.
But for me, even though we did run both BSD and VMS back in the day,
if I were going to pay to power a Unibus VAX, I'd set it up to run VMS
and leave BSD to more generic hardware.
-ethan