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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/2/22 4:20 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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?
> 

No, the was Minix and I don;t believe it was ever ported to the VAX.

bill