DEC 5000/240 What OS with flexibility?
fei...@mork.nosc.mil
Before I sink any more money into this box, I would like to know which OS
can be loaded onto the system. Is there a Linux or NT OS for the system?
Earlier postings mentioned NetBSD (Ithink). Right now its a great door stop!
Regards, John
Kudlich Thomas
Hi John,
this was my question a view days ago.
Here are the answers I received:
from Andy Wagliardo <awag...@cs.vt.edu>:
< I only have experience with Ultrix (back to version 3.0) on the
DECstations,
< but apparently there is a version of NetBSD (http://www.netbsd.org/)
< available. A Linux (http://www.linux.org) port is supposedly in the
works.
< There was a version of OSF/1 developed for the DECstations within the
< company, but it never made it past the beta testers. Too bad.
from Alan Rollow <al...@nabeth.cxo.dec.com>:
< If the products you want to run aren't supported by ULTRIX, then it
< unlikely they'll be supported by any of the free UNIX systems that
< might run on the DECsystem/DECstation family. The current version
< of ULTRIX is V4.5.
from Michael Engel <en...@unix-ag.uni-siegen.de>:
< The only alternatives to Ultrix I know of are NetBSD/pmax and Sprite
< (a BSD-like multiprocessor OS developed in Berkeley). A Linux port is
in
< the works, but still in its early stages. Unfortunately, software
support
< for NetBSD or Sprite won't be any better if you need to use commercial
< packages. GNU-copylefted software will usually support Ultrix and
NetBSD.
from Carl S Shapiro <csha...@ic.sunsyb.edu>:
< NetBSD should work just fine on most R3000 based DECstation 5000's. I
< was running NetBSD on a DECstation 5000/125 that used to sit on my
desk.
< NetBSD does have some kind of binary emulation for Ultrix, so that one
< can run Ultrix binaries under NetBSD/pmax. I never had an Ultrix
binaries
< that I needed to run, so I really do not know how well this works.
BTW: Thank to those who answered.
Hope this will help you.
Thomas Kudlich
kud...@fml.mw.tu-muenchen.de
http://www.fml.mw.tu-muenchen.de/~t7431ac