[rescue] Appropriate OS for Alpha?

[Chris Petersen]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:44:54PM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > True.  Interestingly enough, however, the PowerStorm 4D10T wasn't really
> > supported under Tru64 at that point, IIRC.  In fact, I think the OpenVMS
> > team has done a good job since then, since they have supported a good
> > variety of fairly easy to get 3D framebuffers that *aren't* DEC/Compaq OEM
> > like the PowerStorms were.  Interesting to finally see a commercial OS
> > vendor spend some time on that approach.
> 
> The next card up for OpenVMS support is the ATI Radeon 7500.
> The only drawback is the AGP card will only be supported at
> first, and while I haven't heard, I'm sure will be EV6 and
> EV7 only.
> 

Interesting choice.  Didn't expect that one.

> > The problem at the time was the fact that the 433/500/600AUs were sold as
> > "universal" workstations capable of running NT/Digital UNIX/OpenVMS/Linux,
> > but in reality fell down due to hardware support issues.  It's hard to tell
> > someone that already has the very excellent PowerStorm 4D51T card that
> > they've got to drop that and switch to an Elsa Gloria Synergy (a lower-end
> > card) in order to run VMS on their box.  'Twas a dumb move, to be sure, on
> > DECPaq's part...
> 
> I have a 4D60 (I think) somewhere that I can't use as it is
> NT-only.

4D60s work for Tru64.  Perhaps it's a 4D30 (think that's it)?  There was the
4D10T & another 4D card (I thought it was a 4D30) that were only sold for NT
use...

Chris

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Chris Petersen			  E-mail: havoc at apk.net
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