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- From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "will do TCP/IP for food" Ranum)
- Subject: Re: When does DEC's OSF come out for VAXen?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.011150.2837@decuac.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
- References: <1992Jul27.173632.16379@socrates.umd.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:11:50 GMT
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- >We have a VAX 6510. Right now it's running VMS, but we were thinking
- >about running UNIX on it. We've heard conflicting reports about
- >whether OSF will run on a VAX 6500 series or not.
-
- Everything I've heard says that OSF/1 is not planned for VAXen
- in general.
-
- ULTRIX will continue to run and be supported for VAXen, and will
- interoperate, with OSF/1 &c. So it's not like you need to convert them to
- boat-anchors.
-
- mjr.
-