9 Dec
2009
9 Dec
'09
3:04 a.m.
On 12/9/09, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
No denying that. Off the top of my head Ultrix-32 v2
is probably the
minimum you'll get running on a MicroVAX II.
I loaded Ultrix T2.0 (pre-release "Test" version?) from TK50 in about
1986 or 1987 on an early MicroVAX II. Prior to that, I loaded some
flavor of Ultrix v1 from magtape onto an 11/730 w/RB80 disk. That
doesn't say what will or won't work in terms of the boundary cases,
but it's two points on the curve.
In both cases, I remember that installation took most of a day, and it
was a major wait for the kernel to compile.
-ethan
9 Dec
9 Dec
9:46 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 12/9/09, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at
aracnet.com> wrote:
Ha! I can believe it! Slightly off-topic here, I just went through a
build of a Linux 2.2 kernel on an old 386sx @ 16MHz with 7MB RAM just to
see what it would do, if anything. Sure enough, if you wait long enough
(60 hours in this case) it will do the job, and I now have a custom
kernel for an utterly useless system. Well, it can sort of do
email...slowly. ;)
Anyway, back to the ULTRIX question, as (if?) I come across what seems
to be fairly reliable and definitive information, I'll start my own
chart of sorts.
-- Jared
No denying that. Off the top of my head
Ultrix-32 v2 is probably the
minimum you'll get running on a MicroVAX II.
I loaded Ultrix T2.0 (pre-release "Test" version?) from TK50 in about
1986 or 1987 on an early MicroVAX II. Prior to that, I loaded some
flavor of Ultrix v1 from magtape onto an 11/730 w/RB80 disk. That
doesn't say what will or won't work in terms of the boundary cases,
but it's two points on the curve.
In both cases, I remember that installation took most of a day, and it
was a major wait for the kernel to compile.
10 Dec
10 Dec
6:07 p.m.
* On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 07:46:59PM -0700, J Blaser <oldcpu at rogerwilco.org>
wrote:
Anyway, back to the ULTRIX question, as (if?) I come
across what seems
to be fairly reliable and definitive information, I'll start my own
chart of sorts.
Good luck! I'll be interested to see it. I have a real soft spot for
ULTRIX, as it was my first Unix. You never forget your first Unix.
-- Jared
-Seth
6:20 p.m.
From: Seth Morabito
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:07 PM
* On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 07:46:59PM -0700, J Blaser
<oldcpu at rogerwilco.org>
wrote:
> Anyway, back to the ULTRIX question, as (if?) I
come across what seems
> to be fairly reliable and definitive information, I'll start my own
> chart of sorts.
Good luck! I'll be interested to see it. I have a
real soft spot for
ULTRIX, as it was my first Unix. You never forget your first Unix.
...though $DEITY knows I've tried. (Pyramid 90x c. 1983)
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
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