28 Aug
2019
28 Aug
'19
4:34 p.m.
On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 10:05, Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
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.
Customers were not happy. Anyway, the official release announcement (
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/bit.listserv.esl-l/BovGe3q…
) mentions a few layered products, none of which I have ever seen in the
wild. No OSI implementation is mentioned.
Looking through a list of layered products for Ultrix from mid-1994, I see
a few OSI-related things:
MIPS:
DEC OSI Application 1.1 GZSAA
Developer's Toolkit
DECnet/OSI for ULTRIX 5.1A YT9AA
OSI Application Toolkit 5.1A OSIAP_RISC
VAX:
DECnet/OSI for ULTRIX 5.1A 716AA
OSI Application Toolkit 5.1A OSIAP_VAX
If you want more documentation on any of these, contact me off-list.
-Henry
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 7:05 AM Jason Stevens <
jsteve(a)superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:
I have OSF/1 1.0 running on gxemul …
Any idea on where/ how to configure OSI?
OSF/1 Release 1 (OSFMIPS) console
login: root
Last login: Thu Aug 29 06:03:07 on console
DEC OSF/1 V1.0 (Rev. 166); Sun Jun 07 19:23:34 CDT 1970
DEC OSF/1 V1.0 Worksystem Software (Rev. 161)
# find / -name 'osi*' -print
#
*From: *Peter Jeremy <peter(a)rulingia.com>
*Sent: *Wednesday, August 28, 2019 2:47 PM
*To: *Wesley Parish <wobblygong(a)gmail.com>
*Cc: *TUHS main list <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
*Subject: *Re: [TUHS] If not Linux, then what?
On 2019-Aug-28 18:19:21 +1200, Wesley Parish <wobblygong(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Speaking of OSI stacks, I know 4.4BSD Lite came
with some fragments of
one. OSI's dead and hardly mourned these
days, but did anyone in the
Unix world ever get beyond the 4.4BSD fragmentary
implementation?
There was ISODE
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_Development_Environment)
I recall experimenting with it but didn't actually use it in anger.
I know that DEC/Compaq/HP Tru64 Unix (nee OSF/1) came with a OSI stack -
we had customers who wanted/used FTAM and I was surprised to find it
came with the OS.
--
Peter Jeremy