[geeks] Tru64 licensing/availability...

[Will Mc Donald]

From: "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 05:42:29PM +0100, Will Mc Donald wrote:
> >anyone know what the score is with availability of Tru64 and its use on
> >Digital Personal Workstation 433au's? I'm thinking of picking one up to
have a
> >play with but it comes with NT installed and I'm not sure if Tru64 media's
> >provided.
> >
> > Is it available anywhere under similar licensing to Solaris for machines
with
> > < 1 CPU? Thoughts? Potential gotchas?
>
> I don't know if that machine can run Tru64.  If it can, all you need
> is the media kit from the DEC hobbiest group, which is $99.


Eeep! The Ebay listing states...

Operating Systems - Windows NT 4.0 , Can run DIGITAL UNIX , OpenVMS , Linux

... I'm not sure what the distinction, if any, is between Digital Unix and
Tru64. Worst comes to the worst I could always be doing with a nice SCSI based
linux workstation.

Will.