Check out "the Unix Heritage Society":
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl to see what was "released" to the world.
My memory is that DEC only released a very early version of Ultrix.
The last release of Ultrix was something like 4.6 (I'll have the check my notes, but
I'm traveling) - and on PMAX and VAX.
Over the course of time, Ultrix ran on: PDP-11 models with a MMU both with and without
separated I/D space, most of not all of the Vaxen (except for the 9000 I believe), and
MIPS 2K,3K,4K systems that Digital made.
Historical note: the original Alpha HW was brought up running Ultrix, but that was never
a product ;-)
Later version of Ultrix will run best on PMAX's made with a MIPS 4400 - which was the
last "new" processor that Ultrix supported.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Joe Ferraro <jferraro at gmail.com> wrote:
Admittedly, posting without quick research, apologies...
Where does one come by Ultrix sources these days, is it hobbyist licensable (or
"abandonware"), and what hardware is needed?
Joe
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
I'm going for Ultrix for now - I'm a total TOPS-20 noob, would need a lot of
hand-holding to get the thing to run I fear...
sampsa <sampsa at mac.com>
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On 11 Jun 2013, at 11:36, Robert Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-
hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
Sent: 11 June 2013 09:13
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Cc: Sampsa Laine
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Anyone got TOPS-20 / Ultrix with DECNET SIMH image
ready to run?
Al 11/06/13 10:05, En/na Sampsa Laine ha escrit:
Got some spare cycles/RAM on one of my boxes,
would be fun to run
TOPS-20 or Ultrix with DECNET?
Anyone got a working image / HOWTO on getting this going?
For TOPS-20, you can
enable DECNET in the panda distribution with not too
much effort. I tried to explain how to do it here:
http://ancientbits.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/ten-over-pi.html
The main problem is the network setup. You will have to work in shared
mode and it can wreck the host machine NIC.
Aren't we mixing up a couple of things here?
The Panda distribution, as far as I know, runs on the KL, which SIMH does
not emulate. SIMH emulates the KS and right now you can't run DECnet on the
KS. There is work being done now to bring the KMC/DUP emulation to SIMH to
allow DECnet to run on the KS. You should contact the SIMH mailing list for
status on this.
Regards
Rob