[rescue] DEC Alphastation 255 & OS options

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 10:40 PM, Chris Hedemark 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.

   If memory serves, they're fairly ordinary true parity 72-pin SIMMs.

>>   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.

   There is a free hobbyist program...See http://www.montagar.com.  I 
have the media here; I can get you a copy if you need it.

          -Dave

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