[rescue] DEC Alphastation 255 & OS options

[Chris Hedemark]

On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 10:34 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   Good score!  AS255s are nice machines.  You'll definitely want more 
> than 64MB of RAM, though.  Alphas are very, very memory 
> inefficient...primarily due to the data alignment constraints that 
> they impose in the name of performance.

I searched the archives for this list and found that the memory looks 
to be fairly comprised of obtanium (surprise!)  MemoryX.com didn't have 
it but I'll keep looking.

>   VMS!  8-)

Hmmm HP/Compaq seems to be similarly restrictive on OpenVMS licensing, 
unless I'm missing the obscure link to the free hobbyist downloads.

Chris Hedemark
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