10 May
2023
10 May
'23
11:33 p.m.
On 2023-05-10 22:21, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 5/10/23 15:32, Mark Curtis wrote:
True for 3rd party stuff (and not completely different today either).
However, the DEC stuff is a different stury, and I think that is what
Mark was thinking of.
DECnet for Ultrix was not distributed as sources, or distributed at all,
other than as a product to be installed on Ultrix, which came as binaries.
But as far as 3rd party stuff goes, Ultrix is special enough that most
software you'll find online don't cleanly build, unless it specifically
have provisions for Ultrix.
I suppose a barrier to using Ultrix (4.5) is the
availability of the
necessary software packages (can't remember what the Ultrix term was),
I don't think the base distro that you can find lying around the net
includes things like DecNET or generally anything actually useful :-(
So possibly not a good starter for a newbie.
It's 1990s UNIX; the name of the game in that world is "download
sources and compile". Just about everything that we used on those
system back in the day is still available. The term I think you're looking for is
"CONDIST", Consolidated
Software Distribution. Some of them have been archived but I don't know
offhand which ones.
There's a DECnet for Ultrix, which I've just started looking at. I
don't know if it will run under 4.5. Does anyone know offhand?
I think at least the verison for 4.4 works just fine on 4.5 as well. 4.0
I don't know...
Johnny
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