Ultrix on uVax I

[Pat Barron]

In article <475 at shodha.dec.com> alan at shodha.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.) writes:
>In article <3138 at ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, massey at typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu (Todd Massey) writes:
>> I want to place ultrix on a uVax I and i need to know what the
>> newest version is that will run on it.  
>
>	The last version of ULTRIX to support the MicroVAX I
>	was the ULTRIX-32m V1.2.  We are now at V3.1.

Well, even though it's not "supported", I *have* run Ultrix 2.2 on a
MicroVAX I, and it worked just fine.  One thing you can't do is load
Ultrix 2.2 on to a MicroVAX I over the net (with ris), apparently because
the ris in-memory kernel needs at least 5 megabytes of memory, and the
maximum memory on a MicroVAX I is 4 megabytes.  You need to either start
with a system already running Ultrix 1.2 (you can install Ultrix 2.2 over
top of it), or else install the software on a MicroVAX II, and then move
the disk to the MicroVAX I.

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