Tru64 UNIX 5.1B

Tru64, formerly Digital UNIX, formerly OSF/1 was DEC's UNIX product for their line of Alpha based systems. After DEC's acquisition by Compaq, it was renamed to Tru64. DEC previously had sold a BSD derivative named Ultrix for Vax and MIPS based systems. Their new UNIX on Alpha was meant to counter AT&T and Sun's SVR4 Unix. Tru64 / DIGITAL UNIX / OSF/1 is somewhat interesting in that it used portions of the Mach microkernel and BSD kernel and userland in a manner not entirely unlike NeXTSTEP or Mac OS X. Like OS X, Tru64 itself is not a microkernel system but uses Mach code in its kernel to implement threading and scheduling and possibly other features.



Release notes

Changes from 5.1A: Big Pages; IPv6 Enhancements; Netscape 6; Unicode 3.1

Product type
OS
Vendor
Compaq
Release date
2002
Minimum CPU
DEC Alpha
User interface
GUI
Platform
Unix
Download count
12 (9 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
Tru64 UNIX 5.1B - Disk 1 Operating System [DEC Alpha] 5.1B English 312.83MB 2
Tru64 UNIX 5.1B - Disk 2 Associated Products Volume 1 [DEC Alpha] 5.1B English 545.42MB 1
Tru64 UNIX 5.1B - Disk 3 Associated Products Volume 2 [DEC Alpha] 5.1B English 351.08MB 1
Tru64 UNIX 5.1B - Disk 4 Sources For Open Source Components [DEC Alpha] 5.1B English 180.46MB 1
Tru64 UNIX 5.1B - Disk 5 Patch Kit 4 [DEC Alpha] 5.1B English 170.98MB 1
Tru64 UNIX 5.1B - Disk 6 New Hardware Delivery [DEC Alpha] 5.1B English 355.34MB 1
Tru64 UNIX 5.1B - Disk 7 Firmware Update v6.8 [DEC Alpha] 5.1B English 205.23MB 2

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