| Title: | Alpha Support Conference |
| Notice: | This is a new Alphanotes, please read note 2.2 |
| Moderator: | VAXAXP::BERNARDO |
| Created: | Thu Jan 02 1997 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 128 |
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Just saw this in February's Computer Shopper, an Alpha PC 366mhz, called
an Ultra PC by Enorex $3k. Its got a Digital PC164 Motherboard, 2.5 Gig
EIDE disk, SVGA PCI video card (thats all it says), Toshiba CDrom,
32MB memory, etc. pg 144. I was curious whether Digital Unix and
OpenVMS might be usable on this?
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| 35.1 | Get a Miata... | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Thu Jan 30 1997 10:55 | 15 |
The EB164 is supported by OpenVMS Alpha V6.2-1H3, and by V7.1 and later. The PC164 (at least, not under that name) is not supported. (See the Software Product Description (SPD) for OpenVMS for details.) There are variety of different PC-class Alpha motherboards available from Digital (particularly Digital Semiconductor)... See the semiconductor home pages for some basic information on the boards and the software product descriptions for support information, and see WRKSYS::XL_PERSONAL_WORKSTATION for information on the Miata platform (OpenVMS support for Miata is either in place, or is likely). Also see note 1831.* over in VAXAXP::NOTES$ARCHIVE:VMSNOTES_V12. And see 582.* and 612.* over in RICKS::DECHIPS. | |||||
| 35.2 | third party Alpha Systems and Components | HYDRA::CORRIGAN | Hag at the churn | Thu Jan 30 1997 10:56 | 40 |
This reply is contributed for Greg Devereaux.
I think the Alpha PC 366mhz is strictly a NT system. There was no
mention of Dig
ital
Unix or Openvms compatability. Here is a URL to there product page so
you can lo
ok
yourself...
(http://www.enorex.com/products.html)
The systems offered don't mention compatability with LINUX unix, But it
should r
un
on these boxes possibly. For Third party systems that are certified to
run Digit
al
UNIX or OpenVMS there are a growing list of other Vendors to choose
from.
(http://www.microway.com/)
(http://www.apache.com/pages/alpha.phtml)
(http://www.damicon.fi/alpha/)
(http://www.carrera.com/)
(http://www.dcginc.com/product.html)
(http://140.198.144.65/axp-faq/FAQ-7.html) Vendor links page
(http://www.aspsys.com/)
This should provide you with enough resources with excellent pricing on
Alpha ba
sed
systems and components. Happy Shopping.
Greg.
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