Ultrix for DECstations

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Thu Nov 10 13:31:38 CST 2005


At 11:59 PM +0800 11/10/05, Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
>On 11/10/05, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > The problem is that Ultrix doesn't *feel* all that different from NetBSD.
>
>I wouldn't know that until I've checked it out, wouldn't I?
>Now you've gone and spoiled it..:-)

Personally I bought the DECstation I have somewhere specifically to 
run NetBSD, not that I could tell you where that system is at the 
moment.  Something to consider about Ultrix is that it is quite old 
at this point, and doesn't get any updates.  NetBSD does.

		Zane

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