[rescue] OpenVMS is officially End-of-Life

[alex at lava-net.com]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 04:23:21PM -0700, mc68010 wrote:
> On 6/10/2013 3:50 PM, Andrew Hoerter wrote:
> >Alpha hardware is overpriced on the used market, in my experience.
> >VAX doesn't run anything past VMS 7.3 or so, IIRC. You might look
> >into an older Itanium system (rx1600 or rx2600), those seem to be
> >reasonably cheap.
> 
> The Alpha servers go pretty cheap. It's really just the workstation
> that go for crazy money. There are companies still supporting them
> in the field that buy them all up on ebay for big money. Some of the
> later Alphastations can fetch well over $1,000.
> 
Define "pretty cheap"...I've been trying to dig up an alpha box for 
almost 10 years now, and have always been put off by the insane prices 
they fetch...Closest I ever came was a couple of PWS500AUs I got to play 
with briefly in college.

> You can always run 7.3 on Vax Simh. Simh is actually a lot of fun to
> play with.  It can be a Vax one second and a PDP-11 the next.
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