[rescue] Alpha 8400, 7000r will they run linux??

[Eric Dittman]

> Oh - my - holy - Daemon. These are dream machines.
> (For those of us that are not familar with with Alphas: The DEC 8400 is
> a enterprise server of the class of a Sun Ultra Enterprise 10k or HP9000
> V-Class. The DEC 7000 is the older predecessor of the DEC 8400.)

The Alphaserver 8400 (not DEC 8400) can be upgraded to
an Alphaserver GS140.

> There is / was a Tru64 hobbyist license for $99 available from Compaq.
> Tru64 is worth this money. It is a very nice UNIX that can Move Big
> Rocks (C) (R) (TM). I'am runing  Tru64 on may day-to-day workstation...

Tru64 will operate quite nicely on an 8400.  We've
got a few 8400 systems with Tru64 in production.

> Don't forget VMS. It will do very well on this hardware.

The 8400 works very well with VMS.  That's what I'd run
on one if I had one at home.  We've got 8400 systems
running VMS in production, some of which we've upgraded
to GS140 systems.

> The nice thing on the DEC 8400: You can partition it and run different
> OSes on the same machine. So you can have VMS, Tru64 and NetBSD runing
> on it at the same time simultaneously.

Does NetBSD have Galaxy support?  The operating system has to
understand the configuration tree presented by the console and
honor the information to run different operating systems at
the same time.
-- 
Eric Dittman
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