[Info-vax] OpenVMS I64 V8.1 "Evaluation Release"?

[Dennis Grevenstein]

MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> Whether you would get an rx2600/zx6000 for $ 100 or even $ 50, you
> would still have to power it.  I believe that the i2000 is much more
> energy-efficient, from what I remember reading.  The system, form-
> factor-wise (similar to that of a "mid-tower" AT/PC), would also a
> lot easier to place in a smaller household.

I don't think you have the right idea about the i2000.
It's quite big and heavy (like 40kg), much slower than
an Itanium2 based system and one of the most unreliable
systems - judging only the hardware - I have ever seen 
in my life. Yes, I do explicitly include the late and fast
Merced CPUs in that judgment. It's a collectors item
with no real advantage today. I really prefer my zx6000.

If you are seriously consering an i2000, you might hunt
for any of the other OEM boxes from IBM, Dell, SGI or Fu-Si.
They are all the same system. The graphics card is
sometimes different, but those machines aren't good for
graphics anyway.
I can't say anything about running VMS on those machines.
They run HP-UX reasonably well if you can live with
11.22. You won't get an X server though. Back when
Itaniums weren't as common, it was pretty cool to run
PA-RISC binaries on an Itanium.

I am also not sure if 8.1 would run on an i2000. I think
HP recommended either an rx2600 or rx4640.

Dennis

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