DEC OSF/1 for i386?

2022-04-29 Thread Dennis Grevenstein via cctalk
Hi, just recently I found this archive: https://vetusware.com/download/OSF1%20Source%20Code%201.10/?id=11574 this is a package of source code for DEC OSF/1 V 1.0. I knew that this is supposed to run on DECstations (with MIPS), in fact I have a DS3100 running it myself. However, one thing really

Re: DEC OSF/1 for i386?

2022-04-29 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
I was at IBM when OSF (and subsequently OSF/1) was created and had a lot of discussions with OSF at that time.  At IBM I was working on the IBM Microkernel.  OSF/1 also used Mach (but a different source base) as the kernel.  The big effort was to keep the APIs and documentation "similar".  We h

Re: DEC OSF/1 for i386?

2022-04-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> but I know at IBM we had 2 principle "ports" that we maintained (PPC Did this have anything to do with Apple's alleged "A/UX for PowerPC" which was supposedly OSF/1 based? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *

Re: DEC OSF/1 for i386?

2022-04-29 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
I knew folks who worked on A/UX at Apple, but I don't have any details about it's internals. TTFN - Guy On 4/29/22 11:40, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: but I know at IBM we had 2 principle "ports" that we maintained (PPC Did this have anything to do with Apple's alleged "A/UX for PowerPC"

Re: DEC OSF/1 for i386?

2022-04-30 Thread Gary Grebus via cctalk
On 4/29/22 10:45, Dennis Grevenstein wrote: Hi, just recently I found this archive: https://vetusware.com/download/OSF1%20Source%20Code%201.10/?id=11574 Cool! this is a package of source code for DEC OSF/1 V 1.0. I knew that this is supposed to run on DECstations (with MIPS), in fact I hav