8 Jan
1999
8 Jan
'99
12:57 p.m.
Okay, okay, so a DECstation 5000/125 isn't very "vintage". But I did manage
to save one from certain death from my grad school (Carnegie Mellon), and it
has a nice big 21" monitor, two big 5 1/4" SCSI drives (each around 1/2 a
GB)... and no bootable OS.
It used to run Mach (I was on the Mach project at CMU), but I'd really like
to run VMS on the thing.
Does anyone know how/where/if I can get VMS loaded onto this guy?
Thanks all,
- Joe
8 Jan
8 Jan
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5:04 p.m.
netBSD has only been incompletely ported to the MIPS product line.
There still is no netBSD for a DECsystem 5400 or 5500.
Paul
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Bruce Lane wrote:
At 18:11 08-01-1999 -0600, you wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:
> Does anyone know how/where/if I can get VMS
loaded onto this guy?
I'm confused. VMS for a DECstation?
Don't you need a VAXstation for
that? Or was VMS ported to MIPS?
Actually, NetBSD has been ported to the DECStations. It would
be, IMO, a lot nicer to deal with than VMS (which, as far as I know, was
never ported to the MIPS processor line).
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8:02 p.m.
Joseph S. Barrera III said...
|
|Okay, okay, so a DECstation 5000/125 isn't very "vintage". But I did
manage
|to save one from certain death from my grad school (Carnegie Mellon), and it
|has a nice big 21" monitor, two big 5 1/4" SCSI drives (each around 1/2 a
|GB)... and no bootable OS.
|
|It used to run Mach (I was on the Mach project at CMU), but I'd really like
|to run VMS on the thing.
as someone noted, no luck on VMS.
OS/1 might run on it.
Or you could port Linux.
Or start the VMSix project!
-Miles
9 Jan
9 Jan
10:41 a.m.
Okay, okay, so a DECstation 5000/125 isn't very "vintage". But I did
manage
to save one from certain death from my grad school (Carnegie Mellon), and it
has a nice big 21" monitor, two big 5 1/4" SCSI drives (each around 1/2 a
GB)... and no bootable OS.
It used to run Mach (I was on the Mach project at CMU), but I'd really like
to run VMS on the thing.
Does anyone know how/where/if I can get VMS loaded onto this guy?
Thanks all,
- Joe
Decstations can't run VMS. They're MIPS machines, and VMS only runs on
VAX and
Alpha. You CAN run Ultrix on it and have a fine bsd-ish unix workstation. You
might also look at freebsd, as I have this vague memory that there was a
Decstation port.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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