19 Sep
2020
19 Sep
'20
11:45 p.m.
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(a)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.
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