28 Aug
2019
28 Aug
'19
7:32 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:34:46PM -0400, Henry Bent wrote:
On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 10:05, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Perhaps Clem can shed some light on why DEC did a MIPS machine? I had
sort of stopped paying attention to them, so don't know the reasoning.
If that's the MIPs code base, it is likely
to not be there. I could be
forgetting something, but I remember that DECnet was released for the MIPS
products. It was on Tru64 and Ultrix, but is a 'layered product' so you
needed a license to install it and it needed to be a late enough version
that had switched to exposing a full OSI stack.
That said, I do not remember/know how well it functioned talking to any
OSI stack other than DECs.
OSF/1 for MIPS wasn't actually a beta but it might as well have been. It
was slow, it was buggy, and DEC dropped support for it fairly quickly after
it was released. It was never ported to any of the R4k machines.