Mastodawn

If I ever managed to find a #DECstation 3100 from 1989, what'd be the overall likelihood that I could get modern #Linux of some kind running on what was at one point the world's fastest MIPS-powered #Unix workstation (for all of a few months iirc)? Because I think brute-forcing some sort of #Slackware installation would go great in place of #Ultrix or alongside it.

I know #NetBSD supports the device, so I imagine Linux support exists for this specific machine too, right?

Cryogenix Sep 29

Hacker's Compendium: A collection of modern and nearly-obsolete stuff

Articles and info on Lisp, Retro Systems, Emacs, etc

http://lisp.hopto.org/

#Lisp #Emacs #Ultrix #Solaris #32bit #VMS

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RetroComputingMX Jun 30, 2025

Eventualmente fue desplazado por sistemas más modernos como OSF/1 (que luego se convirtió en Tru64 Unix)

#retrocomputingmx #Unix #Ultrix #decsystem #computerhistory

RetroComputingMX Jun 30, 2025

En junio de 1984 DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) lanzó su sistema operativo basado en Unix, llamado Ultrix. Este SO fue diseñado para las arquitecturas de hardware VAX y DECSystem y compitió contra otras Unix como el SunOS.

Aunque Ultrix estaba basado en el código base de Unix, incorporó características especificas de DEC. Soportaba multiprocesamiento simétrico, un sistema GUI llamado DECwindows (similar a Motif).

#retrocomputingmx #Unix #Ultrix #decsystem #computerhistory

blhue Apr 8, 2025

Sitting here thinking about how many hours of my life I've spent sitting in front of green text on a black terminal.

#linux #linuxlife #osx #solaris #ultrix #vms #bsd

reindeerphoto Dec 27, 2024

@OurParadise
Mir ist vor Jahren (1996) ein Cluster mit ultrix-Maschinen abgeraucht (Stromausfall bei einem gewachsenen Cluster, crossgemountete Platten, jeder wartete auf die anderen Platten beim Hochfahren...). Sogar auf dem System, dass das ROM der Maschinen lieferte lief sowas wie vi. Es hat einen Tag gedauert das wieder aufzusetzen. #ultrix #vi #vim

GeekProjects News Jul 4, 2024

The Workstation You Wanted In 1990, In Your Pocket https://hackaday.com/2024/07/03/the-workstation-you-wanted-in-1990-in-your-pocket/ #Retrocomputing #DECstation #DECWindows #ULTRIX #DEC

The Workstation You Wanted In 1990, In Your Pocket

Years ago there was a sharp divide in desktop computing between the mundane PC-type machines, and the so-called workstations which were the UNIX powerhouses of the day. A lot of familiar names prod…

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Saustrup Aug 21, 2023

@feoh It was a pain, but unfortunately what my school had picked for their network. At this time we didn't have any kind of browser on the PCs, just the DOS telnet client to the student DEC5100 #Ultrix server where the wildest thing you could do was use #Gopher. Later some of the more rogue students experimented with running the #NCSAMosaic browser on the DEC and displaying it on the Windows 3.11 clients through X/Windows.

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argonaut Aug 4, 2023

@hoernchen72 #coff ? Habe ich seit Jahrzehnten nicht mehr in freier Wildbahn gesehen. Hm, auf #Ultrix/#MIPS muss das damals gewesen sein. Auch #Parix für #Transputer hat es benutzt.

Http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/COFF