Antonio Carlini <arcarlini_at_iee.org> wrote:
> Just to nitpick but although the UV3100-80 is indeed
> based on the Mariah chipset, the UV3100-85 and
> UV3100-88 are both NVAX-based IIRC. The -85 has the
> NVAX VIC disabled by the console during initialisation.
> I forget whether the -88 was slugged in the same way or not.
Thanks for filling us in on the dirty secret. I thought DEC learned their
lesson with VS II/RC. (Suddenly everyone needed a replacement BA23
backplane...)
DEC is still my favourite hardware vendor of all time, but this artificial
hobbling of hardware is a real black eye for them. Think about hobbling the
(perfectly standard and generic) KA410 SCSI port to only one TK50Z drive, or
the "strategic decision" to make VS3100 M76 run only VMS and not Ultrix.
(Jumping on my horse again, making Ultrix run on VS3100 M76 would take a
screenful of code. I have the source if anyone wants to take a stab.)
MS
Received on Fri Jan 17 2003 - 14:44:00 GMT