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From: alan@shodha.enet.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Will a DS5000/200CX run Ultrix 3.1c?
Summary: Up the creek.
Message-ID: <1668@shodha.enet.dec.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 00:39:04 GMT
References: <1990Sep13.003710.7777@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. - Colorado Springs, CO.
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In article <1990Sep13.003710.7777@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>, fnddr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (Rice Don D) writes:
> A sub-dilemma to the previously posted problems: it seems only Ultrix 3.1c
> is available for us to boot from.  It has been suggested to me that 3.1d was
> shipped with the first DS5000s because they won't run with earlier releases.
> I hope that's false, or we are up the creek without an OS.  Has anyone been
> crazy/desperate enough to try it?

	I suspect that V3.1C won't have the slightest idea what a
	DECstation 5000 is.  What the V3.1{A,B,C,D} varients did
	and did not support was pretty confusing, but I think that
	V3.1C didn't have any workstation support in it at all (or
	very little).

	I think it went like this:

		V3.1A - DECsystem 5800 Support (or DECsystem 5400
			support) later merged with V3.1C.
		V3.1B - VAX 6000-400 Support
		V3.1C - DECsystem 5400 Support.
		V3.1D - DECstation and DECsystem 5000-200 Support
			(with support for the DECstation 3100 and
			DECstation 2100 along for the ride).
> 
> Don Rice                                  Internet: fnddr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu


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