[SunRescue] Solaris 2.5.1/PPC

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Nicewonger [mailto:twmaster at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 1:01 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Solaris 2.5.1/PPC
> 
> 
> >
> >Nope, NT ONLY runs on x86 now.  Alpha is a gonner.  Compaq 
> has (reportedly)
> >fired their NT on Alpha team.
> 
> I saw on a Dec site recently that NT would still be developed 
> for Alpha, I
> of course ask why ruin a perfectly good Alpha that way.

That's your problem, you're looking at a DEC page when DEC doesn't exist
anymore.  Compaq doesn't support NT on Alpha.  A lot of Compaq VARs are
offering trade-in deals for the Alpha-ProLiant conversion that people have
to do to keep valid support contracts.  Hopefully in just a couple of
months? (whenever the end of support for those NT Alpha systems is) there
should be a pretty decent market of used Alpha systems.
	Greg