[HECnet] VMS on AlphaServer 5000

[Wilm Boerhout]

Mark Wickens schreef op 8-10-2020 om 13:06:
> Buy the bike Keith!
>
>
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 12:00, Keith Halewood 
> <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org <mailto:Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
>     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.
>
>     Keith
>

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