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From: Philip.Tait@phxase.allied.com (Philip Tait)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: decstation 5000/133: linux/MIPS, OpenBSD/pmax or NetBSD/pmax
Date: 2 Jul 1997 17:27:24 GMT
Organization: AlliedSignal Engines, Phoenix, Az
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In article <5pd48e$e4i$1@nntp.stanford.edu>,
jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Stone) writes:
> True, unfortunately. The PROMs in DECstations give much less help to
> an OS installation than, say, Sparcstations. And nobody has yet
> written really nice low-level installation tools for DECstations.
> Installation of either NetBSD and OpenBSD is very similar. In fact,
> significant portions of the OpenBSD installation guide are copied
> verbatim from the NetBSD 1.2 release documentation, complete with the
> typos and spelling errors ;).
When contemplating a non-Ultrix OS for a 5000/200, I looked at Linux,
OpenBSD and NetBSD. I picked OpenBSD because the installation seemed
friendlier. The installation (using a dd'ed simpleroot) was very
straightforward.
My only disappointment is the absence of dlopen() and dlsym(),
preventing dynamic loading of extensions in Perl. Apparently, this is
being worked on, and, presumably, applies both to OpenBSD and NetBSD.
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Philip J. Tait.....AlliedSignal Engines, Phoenix, Az.....+1.602.231.7104
PJTait@iee.org