[HECnet] DECnet routing on Alpha platforms

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-07-16 17.28, Steve Davidson wrote:

While it is true that HP does not officially support Alpha's as routers
(according to their web site), it works just fine!

Actually, they are supported as level 1 routers, just not level 2 (area) routers.

I suspect, but do not know for sure, that this was more of a marketing
ploy to push Itanium over Alpha.

Eh? This was the case from day 1, when Alpha was introduced, and noone had yet ever heard the word "Itanium".

If you go the emulated route (i.e. VAX 3900) this becomes a non-issue as
VAXen ARE supported as DECnet routers.

Yes. And so are for instance PDP-11s. (With the right OS.) :-)

	Johnny