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

[Michael Kraemer]

John Wallace schrieb:

> All of these systems with the exception of the AlphaServer 400 (aka
> Avanti) are basically built around a single main board which has the
> (single) processor and the core logic on it, in an enclosure which
> exposes the main board and thus the processor when you take the lid
> off (or side off).

(snip)

> 
> DEC3000 DTJ article with pictures: http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/pdp-11/alpha_specs.html
> 
> Lots more pictures of Alpha chips and mainboards: http://ummr.altervista.org/DEC_Alpha.htm
> (text mostly in Italian)

The OP wrote about an extra whole in the chassis to reach the CPU
with a finger.
Inspecting the regular AXP 3000's I can't imagine how this could have
been accomplished, except one had a finger XXL.