Subject: Re: VAXstation 3100m30
To: Kevin Ogden <ogdenk@expressautoservice.com>
From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/15/2004 22:09:19
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:24:31 -0400
Kevin Ogden <ogdenk@expressautoservice.com> wrote:

> This is a little off-topic....  I have 2 VAXstation 3100m30's.  One is
> running NetBSD.  I was wondering if it's still possible to buy a copy
> of Ultrix for the other one or if there is some kind of "hobbyist
> license" or something.=20
I suspect that you can't get a legal copy of Ultrix these days. You may
find it somewhere on The Net if you search long enough...

> I just kinda wanted to run a more "old-school" version of UNIX on this
> box for some nostalgia.
You can run 4.3BSD-Tahoe on a QBus MicroVAX II or III. (Or a VAX 11/7xx,
if you are the happy owner of such nice machinery.) You can get it legal
from http://www.tuhs.org/
--=20


tsch=FC=DF,
       Jochen

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