[Info-vax] HW_NAME and HW_TYPE

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER]

In article <ijohas$khv$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
>SHOW CLUSTER shows as HW_TYPE the same string as returned by 
>F$GETSYI("HW_NAME") except in the case of "COMPAQ Professional 
>Workstation XP1000" where SHOW CLUSTER shows "?".  This is the same on 
>all nodes in the cluster (currently "DEC 3000 - M600", "VAX 4000-105A",
>"Digital Personal WorkStation" and "COMPAQ Professional Workstation 
>XP1000") and whether or not the system in question is currently in the 
>cluster (in the case of a DEC 5305 (i.e. ALPHAserver 1200), I have seen 
>"Unknown AXP" after the node had left the cluster, but when the node was 
>in the cluster the hardware name was displayed correctly.
>
>This is (still) 7.3-2 ALPHA (and 7.3 VAX).
>
>Does anyone else have this problem?  On what versions of VMS?  Does 
>anyone NOT have this problem?  On what versions of VMS?

My XP1000s do show "COMPAQ Professional Workstation XP1000" for HW_NAME
and "COMPAQ Professional Workstatio" for HW_TYPE (means stripped to 30char)
on OpenVMS Alpha V8.3 and OpenVMS Alpha V8.4 (standalone and clustered)...

HIH

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