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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