On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 10:04:43AM -0500, Gary Lee Phillips wrote: > As far as I know, Solaris these days only runs on Intel hardware. I've > tried it there, and it seems to devote way too much processor power > and memory to making pretty windowed screen displays (a weakness it > shares with most Linux distributions.)
Hmm? I run Linux on quite a number of different machines (and different hardware architectures as well). Out of all of those, only four devote _any_ amount of CPU and RAM to pretty displays: the workstations for my wife and me and our laptops. Some of the others don't even have the _hardware_ for showing pretty graphics (like the Edgerouter Lite, whose only console is a serial one with a Cisco style connector). > I guess I didn't make it clear that I'm looking for UNIX to run on VAX > or Alpha hardware platforms. Try NetBSD. For fun & giggles I ran NetBSD on simh/vax for a while. Was surprising usable interactively, only disk access and compiles where slow. NetBSD also is comparatively lightweight among modern Unix systems. Kind regards, Alex. -- "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh