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As far as I know, Alphas ran Digital Unix (also known as Tru64 and OSF/1), not Ultrix. I remember using Ultrix on older DEC machines (DECstations) and it was qu
by icedchai 3y ago
As far as I know, Alphas ran Digital Unix (also known as Tru64 and OSF/1), not Ultrix. I remember using Ultrix on older DEC machines (DECstations) and it was quite bad.
- PeterWhittaker 3y agoAh, yes, Digital UNIX, whose shells would conveniently clip command output to the terminal column width, even when invoked in a script. That one took a while to puzzle out, had to set COLUMMS to a ridiculously high number when running on DEC. (I was responsible for an install script that worked on pretty much all UNIXes of the time. The first few hundred or thousand lines were just figuring out which expcetional platform was in play and tweaking various parameters to get consistent results from sh, awk/gawk/nawk, ps, grep, etc. The good old days…)
- icedchai 3y agoDigital Unix was definitely a strange beast! Not as strange as Ultrix though... Ultrix didn't even support shared libraries. Everything was static. In the mid 90's, I worked at an ISP where we had an Alpha / DEC Unix box for shell accounts. All the users hated it and demanded SunOS.