Do you really want to send LagMan a message saying you like their work?
OS used on DEC computer hardware. ultrix was Digital 's first unix like OS intended to be more user friendly than VMS. ultrix eventually gave way to OSF/1.
I was using Ultrix as late as 1997 on an old DECstation at school. I remember crashing it by clicking on the 'clear' button in the graphical login program, and getting root (after we (the students who were the de-facto admins) lost the password) by pressing Ctrl-C at bootup. It had a funky directory structure; among other things it kept home directories in /u/usr/. Ultrix wasn't as bad as some people make it out to be.
A UNIX operating system sold by Digital Electronics Corporation. Famous for bloat. I wonder if DEC remained mostly VMS-centric during the peak of Ultrix's popularity. OSF/1 and newer Digital UNIXes replaced it.
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