Turns out that this machine once ran under OSF/1 as
all the disk
had OSF/1 bootblocks on them. But unfortunately none of the disks
I had left were actually bootable (missing osf_boot or causing
some panic. So, my question is, where can I get a UNIX system
for this machine? Are there any copies of OSF (bootables) around?
How about DEC-UNIX? NetBSD/Alpha (or FreeBSD for that matter)
won't run until we have fixed lack of an XMI bus driver. Are
there any port-alpha people who are working on this XMI issue? (On
the port-vax side it depends mainly on Ragge and the very few folks
with VAX6000s to do that.)
DEC/Compaq used to offer Tru64 Hobbyist for about $100. It included CD's
and permanent license PAKs. Unfortunatly I don't know if they still offer
it, or where to get info on it.
Besides, why waste nice HW like that with Unix, put OpenVMS on it :^)
Zane