16 Jun
1998
16 Jun
'98
11:42 p.m.
Ward Griffiths wrote:
Ultrix was a layer over VMS. Nowadays there is an
official DEC Unix
for the Alpha, though not as good as Linux for that platform. IMAO.
Bzzt... wrong, and thanks for playing. Having been a part of the
Ultrix development group, I can assure you that Ultrix is NOT a layer
over VMS...
And as for the Digital Unix (previously DEC OSF/1), a very early version
of it ran on the mips machines, back when digital was still undecided
as to whether to support it on two architectures...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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