[HECnet] NT 4 on AlphaServer es40

[Cory Smelosky]

On 11 Feb 2013, at 16:12, "Steve Davidson" <jeep at scshome.net> wrote:



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On 11 Feb 2013, at 16:07, "Steve Davidson" <jeep at scshome.net> wrote:



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Subject: Re: [HECnet] NT 4 on AlphaServer es40

On 02/11/2013 03:52 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
That's frightening.   They stopped pushing it as a viable
platform in
like 1994.   The last place I saw it deployed (not that there were
many) was gone by 1995.

I've heard NT performance wasn't that good on early alphas,
so I see
why. ;)

That wasn't why. ;)

It boots the kernel and loads the installer with all 4
processors and all 4G RAM, even!

I am TERRIFIED.

                -Dave

--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


NT 4.0 and all service packs were supported on Alpha.   NT 5.0 (aka 
Windows 2000) beta worked as well until Compaq pulled the plug.   As 
for speed...   The Alpha's kicked series ASS running NT.   One of my 
Jensen's still runs V4.0 and it cooks right along!

It's a shame I can't get the Terminal Server edition to 
detect a disk controller :(


-Steve



Did you try F6 or F8 (I can't remember which for drivers) to install a
new driver at install time?

Neither. S. ;)

It was saying none of my manually specified controllers were found.   Let me go try again, I poked a couple Abios settings related to Symbios compat.


-Steve