[Info-vax] Out with Hurd, in with OpenVMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <8eb761d8-801d-4b8f-a785-a210628c40a5 at x21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, DaveG <david.gudewicz at abbott.com> writes:
> On Aug 18, 7:38=A0pm, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
>> DaveG schrieb:
>>
>> > DEC had an Alpha system they cut a hole in so one could touch the cool
>> > future on the exhibit floor. =A0I touched - it wasn't hot.
>>
>> Which of the early Alpha systems had their CPU
>> oriented towards the outside?
> 
> The one they had on the exhibit floor.

   The VAX 9000.  Code named Aquarius, they had originally thought it
   would have to be water cooled.  They came up with an air cooling
   system for it and when it showed up at a DECUS after it was announced
   they had one on display, partially disassembled so you could see the
   air flow box, which they put on the floor in front of the system,
   and the array of CPU fins the air blew on.