11 May
2023
11 May
'23
2:16 a.m.
On 5/10/23 18:31, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Back then, a lot did indeed provision for Ultrix. Now it's unusual to see.
Sure, but there doesn't seem to be much real need to run the latest &
greatest emacs on Ultrix rather than, say, v18 or v19. ;) All of the
old releases of everything are still available, as you're no doubt aware.
Where can I find the 4.4 package? I have one, but I don'tthink
it's 4.4.
I don't have it, but there are definitely people on HECnet who do...
Update used to run a seriously hacked Ultrix, but we never had DECnet.
Nice. As much Ultrix as I've run, I never had DECnet for it "back in
the day". IRIX, yes, but not Ultrix. Now I fill in all the blanks from
things I couldn't get in a previous life.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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.
But almost everything back then did. :) I built hundreds of
packages under Ultrix when it was my primary platform both at home and
at work, for many years. I rarely had issues. As with anything
else,though, there were "problem areas"...resolver, etc as you
mentioned. (same issue with SunOS..) It's really quite easy to get
common stuff running under Ultrix. And I just remembered another one - syslog was from
the stone age.
Probably the first thing you want to replace with a modern version...
GCC first. ;) Then X11, at least to R4 or R5, both of which build
and run fine under Ultrix. Then emacs. :)
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...