[Info-vax] Alternative _legal_ operating systems for VAX ?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-01-02 21:23, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Johnny Billquist  <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>> On 2022-01-02 16:11, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>
>>> Wikipedia lists BSD 4.3, NetBSD, OpenBSD and something called Xinu
>>> as open source options for VAX.
>>
>> As far as I know Mt. Xinu (read it backwards? ;-) ) wasn't free. I ran
>> it on an 8650 for a while. I think I still know where the manuals are,
>> but I'm unsure if I know where the tapes are...
> 
> I think you are talking about two different things.  Mt. Xinu made a
> number of commercial products.  XINU was a unixlike kernel without much
> else; it was not a full "OS distribution" as we would call it today,
> but it was open source.  It was an interesting demo for students but
> it was not actually useful for anything.

Oh! My bad then. Hmm, was Xinu the Tannenbaum thing?

   Johnny