Ultrix for DECstations

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Nov 10 12:48:40 CST 2005


Dan Williams wrote:
> On 10/11/05, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Dan Williams wrote:
>>
>>>>It's really too bad that DEC never released a version of VMS for
>>>>DECstation.  I'd be all over that.
>>>>
>>>>Peace...  Sridhar
>>>>
>>>
>>>The 3000/ 300, 400, 500 and 500x all run Openvms Alpha. Up to which
>>>version I don't know, but I would assume current.
>>
>>That's fine for Alphas, but DECstations are MIPS.
>>
>>Peace...  Sridhar
>>
> 
> The Decstation 3000 range where Alphas, they had a 21064 chip.

Wrong.  The DEC 3000 range were alphas.  The DECstation 2100/3100, 5100, 
5400, 5500 and 5000-series were MIPS.

Peace...  Sridhar


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