Re: DEC Multia OS....any suggestions?

From: Benjamin Gawert (bgawert_at_gmx.de)
Date: 01/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:37:15 +0100

Charles Bradbury wrote:

> I am hoping that someone in here can help me with a couple questions I
> have. I acquired a DEC Multia some time ago and have yet to put it to
> use. I am a full time student going into computer science and wanted
> to play around with the 64 bit architecture. After milling over what
> OS to use I started finding more options. I have a version of NT 4.0,
> but I want to avoid that if all possible.

Well, You want an 64Bit OS so NT isn't for You. Even on the Alpha NT is only
a 32Bit OS...

> I know there are versions
> of Linux out there as well as FreeBSD. Tru64 (Digital Unix) would be
> nice, but it's not freely available.

But it's not expensive, and You get a "real" Enterprise-class Unix. And when
looking around on a OS for my Alphas I got the feeling that the Linux
versions are a bit dated, though. On the other side there's a lot available
for Tru64, incl. OpenOffice ;-)

Benjamin

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