[HECnet] DECnet Area Router question

[Steve Davidson]

Well...

My VAXstation 4000 VLC is quite fast!   A little planning and some tuning and
away you go.   The Multinet Gateway here is a VS4000/VLC.   It does have 24MB
of memory - highly recommended and, 1.28GB of disk space for a system disk.
It's also one of the quietest VAXen I have ever dealt with.

The other VS4K/VLC is my workstation.   It runs DW-MOTIF at a fairly good clip.

I have no complaints and you can't beat the size and the lack of heat produced!

-Steve


On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 15:29 -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Am I remembering correctly that in order to have a DECnet Phase IV area
router you need to be running a VAX?

Can Phase V act as an area router?

I'm contemplating figuring out what Alpha has the lowest power requirements,
and bringing it online in place of MONK (a very power hungry XP1000 with
plenty of external drives).

Then again a VAX would probably pull even less.   Believe it or not, the
"killer app" that I'm having a hard time living without is DEC Document.

Zane




My power consumption page might help a bit:
http://lakesdev.blogspot.com/2008/09/power-consumption-of-computers-and.html

The VAXstation 4000/VLC takes the lowest power but at about 6 VUPS it is
quite slow. The 4000/60 and 4000/90 (BUBBLE) take about 100 Watts, which
is twice as much, but are *so* much more usable.

In terms of alpha, the lowest power I've found so far is the Alphaserver
300 4/266 (TIGER) which clocks at about 100 watts. The Alphaserver 1000A
runs at about 180 watts which is pretty good given the expansion
possibilities (it has a BA356 8 drive enclosure built in).

I'm currently running a BUBBLE and TIGER 24/7 which is a VAX and Alpha
node for 200 watts total.

Mark.