Yes, there was Ultrix on the 11. I believe you can download it....
No thanks.
Ultrix was a succession of different systems, starting on the PDP-11
but moving to the VAX and eventually MIPS.
From 7th Edition, 4.1, or ??? I don't have the poster handy. What
I recall of Ultrix 1.0 said it was 4.2BSD plus stuff (on the 785 at
least).
I know that CMU did a port of OSF/1 to MIPS, but I don't think it was
generally available. And I certainly believe that a lot of the
development
work was hosted on MIPS and possibly even targeted MIPS before the
Alpha
was ready, but I don't ever recall it being a commercial offering from
DEC. Even after the Alpha was released, if you bought a MIPS or
VAX-based
machine from DEC, the only Unix offered was Ultrix.
Maybe if you were one of those special customers you could get them to
give you OSF for MIPS, but I never ranked that high. :-)
We were hit with VAX-based workstations, early MIPS-based
workstations, and the new Sun Sparc pizza boxes, all at the same
time. It was very confusing. It was also a lot more entertaining
than chasing the generic foo86 hardware dragons that live today.
Oh, Ultrix was a pain to administer, especially after DEC dropped
support
for it.
How so? Back then it was 4.2BSD + tools-to-be-ignored. You didn't
actually use the 'admin tools', did you?!? I fell in love with AIX
when I discovered the switch that made it convert the boot files from
SYSV to /etc/rc.* As I admin machines with /bin/ed that same crowd
is still trying to hack XML into vi.
--lyndon
