@kiwa Nice machine! Ridiculously hard to get these days. You could tinker around with #OpenVMS, Windows NT Alpha and #Tru64 UNIX on it. :)

A prof of mine had a #DEC #AlphaStation. Beautiful machine that was cursed to run my bad attempts at #Fortran. (t r s)

#Tru64 #OpenVMS #HP #Compaq

@keithzg @kpeace @aral My sweet summer child, even in the pre-1.0 betas #Netscape was on #Windows, #Mac, and a panoply of #Unix platforms (#DEC #Tru64 (then called OSF/1 AXP), #HPUX, #SGI #IRIX, IBM #AIX, #SunOS, Sun #Solaris, #BSDI, and #Linux): http://home.mcom.com/archives/

It wasn’t “ported.”

@pterlisten Schöner Blast from the past. Erinnert mich daran, wie gerne ich einen AlphaServer/AlphaStation DS10/20 für #OpenVMS und #Tru64 hätte - aber bei den Preisen…

An Overview of the #Alpha AXP 21164 Micro-Architecture, lecture by John Edmonson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHupqMbLj1g

#DEC #VMS #OpenVMS #Ultrix #Tru64 #VAX #Retrocomputing #CPU

@vga256
My local library also had these for use. It's a small world.

#DEC #VMS #OpenVMS #Ultrix #Tru64 #VAX #Alpha

Are there any functional Linux distros that include #AdvFS? The ex-#Tru64 admin in me would switch on the spot away from XFS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdvFS

@surabax Presumably, that there isn't a #DIGITAL #UNIX | #Tru64 UNIX | #OSF/1 license or hobbyist program around anymore.

The #HP / #HPE commercial licenses are available for purchase for older #OpenVMS versions, and the #VSI subscription licenses (those purchased from VSI) for the current OpenVMS versions, and there are other open-source options for those interested.

Your VSI hobbyist licenses will work.

The HP / HPE OpenVMS hobbyist licenses are no longer available, and those that were issued have terminated. And the Tru64 UNIX licenses and hobbyist program all ended long ago.

TIL sco unixware survived https://www.xinuos.com/menu-products/unixware-2018 better than #solaris #tru64

#lispmachines, so slow, even when emulated on a 64 bit RISC CPU #opengenera #symbolics #dec #decalpha #tru64 #trufax64