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From: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix on DEC AlphaServer 4000
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 21:33:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58699dd0-5477-2fe4-5435-ccadeebed821@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD05_j3nNEdSp2FgBYrLWNUn2x-Mx-nE4E-bkeHT3AhLo+gRqA@mail.gmail.com>



On 9/18/2020 8:26 PM, Paul Riley wrote:
> I have an opportunity to buy a DEC AlphaServer. Is there a version of 
> Unix which will run on this?

Absolutely! The CS Dept. at UC Berkeley got some of the first Alphas
released by DEC back in the 90s (I don't remember the exact dates).
We ran OSF/1 (a.k.a. Digital Unix, a.k.a other names). In fact, what
became PostgreSQL was developed on Alphas running that Unix.

Jon


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-19  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-19  3:26 Paul Riley
2020-09-19  4:19 ` Rico Pajarola
2020-09-19  4:26 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-09-19 17:45   ` Clem Cole
2020-09-19 19:42     ` John Gilmore
2020-09-19  4:27 ` Adam Thornton
2020-09-19  4:33 ` Jon Forrest [this message]
2020-09-19 21:56   ` David Arnold
2020-09-20  5:29 Rudi Blom

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