[HECnet] Sort of off-topic, co-locating area 8

[hvlems at zonnet.nl]

Three white box Alpha's will run VMS along with NT 4: the Digital Server 3300, 5305 and the 7305. 
The modification is found on home.zonnet.nl/hvlems and look for White Box Alpha's. 
The 5305 won't run True64 though. 
Hans
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From: Brett Bump <bbump at rsts.org>
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:49:22 
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:

On 01/22/2013 09:31 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Is that a proper Xeon or a P4 Xeon?

No idea..But yeah, I'm going to get a beefy server with serious internet access (the place provides a gigabit pipe) for running various fun stuff on. Of course if other HECnet users have an idea for a cool project to run as a VM on the server, that'd be fun too.

Will you let me run NT 4 TSE on it? ;)

I'd love NT 4 on a gigabit pipe...

It's a sickness.

I'm not too fond of windows past NT 4 for anything other than an occasional game. ;)   I'd call it more masochism to be honest.   I DID recently install it on a Pentium 4 though. ;) (Did you know it won't boot on a P4 HT?)

I didn't.   And from what they tell me, that knowledge is now IN my
brain, and I cannot get those neurons back.

                    -Dave

I think Dave has a few extra neurons to spare.   And if he can't get these 
back they must be core instead of dynamic.   I think I'll see if we can get 
him to exhibit a RSTS "?Program lost, sorry" message.

I still have 2 DECServer 3300's (Alpha's) that I installed NT4 TSE on some 
time back before the turn of the century.   Dastardly slow, but the only 
platform I had at the time at home to practice on to get Citrix certified.

They really ran FreeBSD nice though, and since I had loaded 4 drives in 
each one, I think I also had copies of NetBSD and Linux (loaded via Milo).
I wish they had been able to run VMS, alas they were the white elephants.
They wouldn't run FreeBSD V4, until we stole a patch from the NetBSD boys.

Brett