> > Personally if I was going to have one OpenVMS system I'd be more
> > interested in an Alpha though. My DEC PWS 433au is the size of a
> > smallish x86 tower, and it rocks!
>
> I'm a long-time VMS user, and I have an Alpha - a Noname AXPpci133
> board I got many years ago that was at one time the fastest computer
> in my house. I have a flavor of *BSD on it because I didn't know how
> to bring it up from install media when I got it (3+ years ago) and
> the BSD that's on it was available as a 400MB disk image... I dropped
> an ST1480 on a Sun, "gzip | dd..." and I had a bootable Alpha disk.
>
> Did the guy doing the OpenVMS port to the AXPpci133 ever get it working
> enough to use?
He was able to get it to boot, but a lot of the hardware isn't
supported.
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Eric Dittman
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Received on Mon Feb 25 2002 - 15:16:35 GMT