From: arne@vajhoej.dk

On 10/15/2025 7:58 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article ,
> John Dallman  wrote:
>> In article <10ckadi$7dr$1@reader2.panix.com>,
>> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>> John Dallman  wrote:
>>>> Our stuff does gain significantly from 64-bit addressing; I could
>>>> believe fields that didn't need 64-bit gave up on Sun earlier.
>>>
>>> I can see that. Personally, I really liked Tru64 nee DEC Unix

Compaq Tru64, Digital Unix, DEC OSF/1.

>>> nee OSF/1 AXP on Alpha. OSF/1 felt like it was a much better
>>> system overall if one had to go if swimming in Unix waters,
>>> while Solaris felt underbaked.
>>
>> I was happy with it, but a very experienced Unix chap of my acquaintance
>> reckoned "It doesn't run - it just lurches!" regarding it as a
>> Frankenstein job of parts stitched together.
>
> Ha! I can sort of see why they'd say that.  It definitely had
> odd bits of Mach and System V seemingly bolted onto it.  Overall
> though I thought it was a good system.
>
> To bring it back to VMS (and sheepishly admit a good bunch of
> the recent drift is my own) We had an Alpha running OpenVMS AXP
> 1.2, or whatever one of the earlier versions was;

Probably 1.5.

VMS Alpha went 1.0 -> 1.5 -> 6.1.

Arne

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