Ultrix
ULTRIX | |
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developer | Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) |
License (s) | Proprietary |
Current version | 4.5 (November 1995) |
ancestry |
UNIX ↳ BSD ↳ ULTRIX |
Architecture (s) | MIPS , PDP-11 , VAX |
Others | Development stopped |
ULTRIX (also Digital Unix ) is a Unix variant for the VAX as well as the DECstation and DECsystem computer families from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), which was first published in 1982.
history
ULTRIX-32
At the beginning of 1984, DEC announced the new ULTRIX-32 for the VAX . This version, released in June, was based on 4.2 BSD , but was later expanded to include functions from 4.3BSD and Unix System V Release 2.
From 1986 the ULTRIX-32 Operating System Version 1.2 also supported the new VAX 8650 and the workstation VAXstation II .
ULTRIX-11
The first version of this product was still called V7M-11 V1.0, which was based on UNIX 7th Edition. In 1984 the new version was introduced as ULTRIX-11 V2.0 for the computers of the Micro / PDP11 and PDP-11 series. Version 3.0 followed in 1986.
ULTRIX for RISC
The last version of Ultrix was version 4.5 for DECstation and DECsystem from November 1995.
Functions
Ultrix supported both TCP / IP and DECnet , as well as SMTP and Mail-11 .
Originally, the Ultrix Workstation Software (UWS) desktop environment based on the X Window System was used for the VAXstations under Ultrix-32 . With the spread of X Version 11 (X11), the DECwindows environment was introduced, which was also the basis for the design of the later Motif of the OSF .
See also
Web links
- Ultrix FAQ (English)
- Info on Ultrix from OSdata ( Memento from January 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- Ultrix-11 2.0 manuals