[HECnet] VMS on AlphaServer 5000

[Mark Wickens]

Buy the bike Keith!


On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 12:00, Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
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> I’ve trawled through HECnet emails for enlightenment around alpha systems
> running VMS and I believe I’m not repeating the question. So here goes.
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> There’s an DEC Alphaserver 5000 (white case) (EV56) floating a few miles
> away from where I live. It’s running NT, so there’s an AlphaBIOS. Is there
> a ‘hidden’ SRM in that machine and therefore is it able to run current (HPE
> at least) versions of VMS? I don’t want to end up with a machine running NT
> – my life has enough horror in it already. I had a look on HP’s FTP site at
> firmware updates and the Alphaserver 5000 isn’t even mentioned, or at least
> not in plain text.
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> I nearly bought a reasonably loaded Itanic RX2600 a few days ago but
> chickened out at the last minute. What I really should do is abandon all of
> this and buy a new motorbike.
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> Keith
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