Thanks to everyone who responded to my UNIX question so quickly. Yes, I had forgotten about the availability of BSD, which probably can meet my requirements and I will look into both NetBSD and OpenBSD right away. The PWS is a Miata-GL system with wide SCSI and should perform well with BSD if I have a graphics card available that is compatible.
Gary, K9NZI On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:41 AM Julien Savard <juliensavar...@gmail.com> wrote: > You might want to take a look here : > > http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/alpha/ > https://www.openbsd.org/alpha.html > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 12:23 PM Gary Lee Phillips <tivo.ov...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Not precisely on topic here, I know. But this list shares a lot of >> relevant knowledge and experience and I have easy access, so I'm asking. >> Please forgive the distraction. >> >> I am a fairly active user of a Digital Personal Work Station (PWS) and >> generally run OpenVMS on it. I have a body of my own code for amateur radio >> antenna and signal modeling, etc. written primarily in Fortran. Looking at >> this unhappy end-of-life situation for hobbyist OpenVMS, I'm wondering if >> there is a UNIX available for that processor that doesn't require me to >> purchase an expensive license. >> >> Linux would also be acceptable, but the only Linux I found a couple of >> years ago that supported the Alpha was Gentoo, and that one didn't work all >> that well. It had no graphical interface, for one thing. I am familiar with >> UNIX and shell commands, that's not a problem. However, I do make use of >> graphical output and having no working XWindows is an issue. Debian used to >> have an Alpha port, but apparently that is no longer supported. There was a >> Windows NT for Alpha and I even have a copy, but it's very old and limited, >> and I have no Fortran or C compiler for it. >> >> DEC's own Tru64 UNIX would probably be ideal, but I have no idea whether >> it can be obtained any more or will run without an unobtainable license >> key. Any UNIX or UNIX-like system that can run GNU compilers or similar >> will probably work for me. >> >> Any thoughts on this? Comments welcome. Thanks. >> >> Gary, K9NZI >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> Simh@trailing-edge.com >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > >
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