10 May
2023
10 May
'23
10:21 p.m.
On 5/10/23 15:32, Mark Curtis wrote:
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 Some of them have been archived but I don't know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?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA