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Tru64 UNIX Dead

Tru64 UNIX
KindOperating system
Appeared1992
Ended2012
StatusDead
CreatorDEC → Compaq → HP
FamilyUnix
PlatformAlpha
Also known asDigital UNIX, OSF/1
Sourcebitsavers.org ↗

DEC's Alpha Unix — AdvFS, clustering, and the fastest hardware of its day; ended with the Alpha architecture itself.

Descended from Research Unix
Ran on DEC AlphaStation
Created by Digital Equipment Corporation

Tru64 UNIX was DEC's OSF/1 descendant for Alpha (1992) — the first commercial 64-bit Unix, running on the fastest hardware of its era with the AdvFS filesystem and TruCluster.\n\nCompaq killed it for HP-UX; the last Tru64 shipped in 2012.

Sources

  1. bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru64_UNIX