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by cbm-vic-20
474 days ago
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DEC was one of the few vendors who built hardware designed to run multiple operating systems from day one. Alpha had VMS, OSF/1 (aka Tru64, aka Digital UNIX) and NT. VAX had VMS and Ultrix. The short MIPS era also had Ultrix. PDP-11 had RSTS/E, RSX-11, RT-11, and some early primitive OSes, and late in the game, Ultrix. FX!32 was really cool. The Alpha systems were crazy fast compared to the Pentium systems of its time, so even using the translation layer, x86 Windows NT apps performed reasonably well under FX!32. The intent was to have that be a stop-gap until third-party software vendors made native Alpha builds of their NT apps. |
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