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--- Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT 39.19151 N, 77.23432 W QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet > On Mar 12, 2020, at 12:49 PM, Gary Lee Phillips <tivo.ov...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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