[rescue] Appropriate OS for Alpha?

[Eric Dittman]

> True.  Interestingly enough, however, the PowerStorm 4D10T wasn't really
> supported under Tru64 at that point, IIRC.  In fact, I think the OpenVMS
> team has done a good job since then, since they have supported a good
> variety of fairly easy to get 3D framebuffers that *aren't* DEC/Compaq OEM
> like the PowerStorms were.  Interesting to finally see a commercial OS
> vendor spend some time on that approach.

The next card up for OpenVMS support is the ATI Radeon 7500.
The only drawback is the AGP card will only be supported at
first, and while I haven't heard, I'm sure will be EV6 and
EV7 only.

> The problem at the time was the fact that the 433/500/600AUs were sold as
> "universal" workstations capable of running NT/Digital UNIX/OpenVMS/Linux,
> but in reality fell down due to hardware support issues.  It's hard to tell
> someone that already has the very excellent PowerStorm 4D51T card that
> they've got to drop that and switch to an Elsa Gloria Synergy (a lower-end
> card) in order to run VMS on their box.  'Twas a dumb move, to be sure, on
> DECPaq's part...

I have a 4D60 (I think) somewhere that I can't use as it is
NT-only.
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