Ultrix-11

[Rico Pajarola]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 9:29 AM Warner Losh via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021, 9:11 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > On 8/15/21 12:53 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 3:26 PM jim stephens via cctalk <
> > > cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >>   > I'm running Ultrix V2 on Simh quite happily today and have a
> couple
> > >>
> > >
> > > I did some quick searching and couldn't find a Ultrix-11 V2 image out
> in
> > > the interwebs...
> > >
> > > Anybody have better google fu than me that can hook me up?
>
I don't have a proper V2 distribution, but I did manage to compile it from
the sources that are flying around and create a working installation. I
could not figure out how to create installation media though, the process
seems to require some kind of "prototype disk" which I don't have and
didn't have the motivation to reverse engineer.

Somebody (not me) helpfully uploaded it to archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/vax-ultrix-2.0.tar




> > >
> > > Warner
> > >
> >
> >
> > With 3.1 available why would you want to run 2.0?
>
>
> Historical research.
>
> Warner
>
> Someone mentioned
> > a 4.0.  I don't remember there ever being anything after 3.1 (promised,
> > but never saw it delivered)  Would be fun to look at.  But I suspect
> > anything beginning with 4 is actually Ultrix-32 which I think went as
> > far as 4.5.
> >
> > bill
> >
> >
>