[TUHS] Unix on DEC AlphaServer 4000

[Clem Cole]

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 at 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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