Re: Multia/166MHz

["Dan O'Reilly" <dano process com>]

At 08:13 PM 1/1/00 -0400, Marco Shaw wrote:
> Out of curiosity...What will my DEC Multia 166 be able to run (with 64MB
> RAM/325MB HD)?  The Compaq site sends you on a wild goose chase if you're
> looking for system requirements.
>
> I know I can run some Linuxes, OpenBSD, etc.  But what about OpenVMS and
> True64 or the older DEC UNIX versions?

True64 will run with the hobbyist license (I run one myself).  VMS will
run with the hobbyist license as well, but it needs some special support
files to do so (again, I run that at home myself).  Neither Tru64 nor VMS is
officially supported on the box, though.  You'll run both at your own risk
(but they do run well, with the caveat that VMS doesn't support the com ports
on the box).  If you're really desperate for something to run, it'll even
run Windows NT.


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