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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Cc: tuhs <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix on DEC AlphaServer 4000
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 13:45:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2O4Yb=CAER6OWg2MNbcXutCqT1PnvQQYqK+B-K2FaPFEg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.95.0.1600489580.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu>

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Tru64 will give you the best experience of the time, allow you to use the
GEM compilers, TruClusters, and all of hte interesting layered products.
The issue is license managers as Nelson says, but Internet search is your
friend *i.e.* different unlimited time styles license PAKs for Tru64 have
been reported to have been seen in the wild, however YMMV.

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 12:27 AM Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>
wrote:

> >> I have an opportunity to buy a DEC AlphaServer. Is there a version of
> Unix
> >> which will run on this?
>
> There are several Debian Alpha ISO images available:
>
>         http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-alpha
>         https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/5.0.10/alpha/iso-cd
>         https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2020-08-19/
>         https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/Alpha
>         https://www.debian.org/ports/alpha/
>         https://www.debian.org/releases/woody/alpha
>
> And Gentoo Linux:
>
>         https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Alpha/FAQ
>
> There is also NetBSD:
>
>         https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.0/alpha
>
> And OpenBSD:
>
>         http://www.openbsd.org/alpha.html
>
> And FreeBSD:
>
>         https://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-alpha.html
>
> We ran DEC OSF/1 until the power supplies on our several Alpha systems
> died, but it had an annual license fee, and the O/S shutdown when the
> license expired.
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Nelson H. F. Beebe                    Tel: +1 801 581 5254
>     -
> - University of Utah                    FAX: +1 801 581 4148
>     -
> - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB    Internet e-mail:
> beebe@math.utah.edu  -
> - 155 S 1400 E RM 233                       beebe@acm.org
> beebe@computer.org -
> - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA    URL:
> http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ -
>
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>

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-19 17:46 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 [this message]
2020-09-19 19:42     ` John Gilmore
2020-09-19  4:27 ` Adam Thornton
2020-09-19  4:33 ` Jon Forrest
2020-09-19 21:56   ` David Arnold
2020-09-20  5:29 Rudi Blom

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