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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