30 Oct
2001
30 Oct
'01
4:14 p.m.
on 10/30/01 5:45 PM, One Without Reason at vance(a)ikickass.org wrote:
I was told at one time that work had begun on MIPS/VMS just before DEC's
abandonment of the DECstation line in favor of Alpha. Does anyone (maybe
a current Compaq employee) know where in some dark corner the sources
might be found?
This is most likely not correct. Someone probably has VMS mixed up with
OSF/1. DEC began developing OSF/1 on the MIPS DECstations before it's
transference to Alpha. I have been told that MIPS support remained in the
source tree for OSF/1 up until version 4.0a(then renamed to Digial Unix?).
Though I have never bothered to look into it. If you search port-pmax you
might find a thread from a year or two ago on this subject.
It is entirely possible that DEC was working on MIPS VMS, but that would
mean that they were writing/maintaining three different operating systems
for the same hardware platform, (MIPS) at the same time.
Chris