On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:16:18PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > >>>>> "DF" == Dave FitzPatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DF> Uri Guttman wrote on 11/18/2005, 1:22 PM: > > RW> Cool! I'd missed that line. Maybe I should download it and > >> test it on > RW> DEC-Alpha, there probably isn't a tester there yet ... :-) > >> > >> OSF-1 or (*cough*) ultrix? > >> > >> :-) > > DF> I don't believe Ultrix was ever built for Alpha. There was OSF-1 which > DF> became DIGITAL Unix which became Compaq Tru64 UNIX. > > i think you are correct. i was using both as we were maintaining a > compiler on ultrix and also porting it to alpha. so we had both systems > around there. ultrix ran on the crappy mips boxes. this wasn't at dec > but at a place which bought the compiler biz from dec.
However, as I recall, NT was being developed for the Alpha at one point - I think it was available commercially for a while and not just internal to MS. Not to surprising, actually, since a large chunk of the original NT design team was hired away from DEC (Dave Cutler et al). -- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
