[rescue] Solaris on a PPC (now VMS)

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Feb 6 13:15:47 CST 2003


On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 05:40 AM, Kevin wrote:
> Sounds good, especially the part about being full
> featured out of the box.  I like the concept of only
> having to install what i intend to use and nothing
> else, but at other times i get tired of HAVING to do
> so.

   Well, keep in mind that these are OS features...not stuff like window 
managers and stuff like that.

>  What hardware does VMS run on? Anything other than
> VAX and Alpha?

   VAX and Alpha.  Compaq says they have it booting on Itanium now, but 
I wouldn't expect that to go very far unless things really turn around 
in the Itanium world.

          -Dave

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