VAX vs. Alpha for OpenVMS

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Thu May 22 03:39:00 2003

>OK, a bit of an odd question here, but I'm wondering what people think as I'm used to a PWS 433au.
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>A co-worker of mine just bought a VAXstation 4000/90 and a DEC 3000/400. She wants to use one of them as a Mail Server running OpenVMS. The VAX looks to have 104MB, the Alpha looks to only have 96MB. Any idea on which would work best for her? Part of what has me concerned is the lack of RAM on the Alpha. If she uses the VAX, it will probably end up running V7.3, if the Alpha probably V7.2-1H1. DECwindows won't be loaded, which will help get the Alpha down to a better memory footprint.
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>Oh, she'll probably also want to run a Webserver on the system so that the mail can be accessed via the web.

Make that a VAXstation 4000/60.

                Zane

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