[Info-vax] DEC Multia (UDB) issues

[greid57 at o2.co.uk]

Hi all,
    I have a Multia which I've never run (lack of time).
I also have a MicroVax II and a Vaxstation 3100/30 - out of interest, how 
does a Multia compare to
these in performance?

Also, what would people reccomend as a cheap low-end Alpha if the Multia is 
essentially unuseable?

Regards, Graham

"Bob Koehler" <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message 
news:qWWvDjnWgfe+ at eisner.encompasserve.org...
> In article 
> <5e6282a5-3685-438d-8412-614a86dcc0f7 at v2g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, John 
> Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>> On Aug 22, 10:35=A0pm, MG <marcog... at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> I have mostly I64 systems running. =A0I don't know where to begin with
>>> that. =A0Is it even possible? =A0(I haven't ever looked into that 
>>> either.=
>>
>> Obviously VMS isn't supported on Multia anyway. In an Alpha-centric
>> setup, clustering the Multia might have been worth some thought, but
>> booting an old Multia-compatible Alpha VMS version as a satellite in
>> an IA64-centric setup (ie more recent VMS) probably isn't a bright
>> idea at all (even if it stood much chance of working).
>
>   IIRC, the only cross-architecture booting that isn't supported is
>   VAX - IA64.  Anything else should be a matter of having disk space
>   and using cluster_config.com.
>
>   As far as Multia, the issue here is whether the boot ROM and unsupported
>   drivers can handle boot over the NIC using MOP or IP.  (I'm assuming
>   Multia can cluster over the NIC via those drivers.)
>