RE: [TCLUG:1497] DEC3000 300L

[Brad DeJong <1796@mn3.lawson.lawson.com>]

I read the c.o.l.alpha news group pretty regularly and the generic   
response to this question is that the 3000/300L is a TurboChannel (sp?)   
based machine.  The 21064 is well supported.  This is similar to the   
problems people had getting Linux to run on 386 and 486 based MCA   
machines (the PS/2 line) from IBM a couple years back.  x86 was   
supported, but MCA wasn't.  (background:  MCA is Micro Channel   
Architecture or something close to that.  It was IBM's successor to the   
ISA bus.  Very nice design for the time, but they wanted every mom and   
pop motherboard maker to pay them a $150 licensing fee per board.  Almost   
no one did of course.)

As for running Linux/Alpha apps on Digital Unix, c.o.l.alpha says no   
luck.  Supposedly this would require a kernel patch or compatibility   
library or something like that.  (another side note:  SCO recently   
unveiled just such a patch for their OS.  Linux x86 has had IBCS support   
to run SCO binaries for years, nice to see it going the other way.)

As for running DEC OpenUNIX, what is that?  I've heard of Digital Unix,   
but a 2-user license of DU and media seem to be about $2000.  DU used to   
be called OSF/1.  Is that what you are thinking of?

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From:  Nate Carlson
Sent:  Tuesday, September 29, 1998 11:25 PM
To:  tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com; Brad DeJong
Subject:  Re: [TCLUG:1497] DEC300 300L

   

I _thought_ linux ran on a 21064.. i guess I'm wrong though. I'd check   
the
kernel itself.. I really doubt dec openunix will run linux apps.. maybe   
if
you do some hacking with libraries and such? (I know you can run Digital
UNIX apps under Linux/Alpha if you install the proper libraries..). Well,
good luck.. let me know if you want me to check the kernel to see if   
linux
will boot on that machine..

 -Nate Carlson
 The Infinite Loop
 natecars@infiniteloop.com

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Serge M. Egelman wrote:

> I have just received a DEC3000/300L (alpha 21064), it contains openVMS
> but I was wondering if it's possible to put linux on it.  I checked the
> RedHat compatibility list, and it says it is not supported.  Does   
anyone
> know of any other distributions that might work?
>
> If worst comes to worst, I'll install DEC OpenUNIX.  I'm highly   
doubting
> that I can run any linux programs (without recompiling)?
>
> serge
>
>
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