[Info-vax] openvms support for ultra3 scsi on xp1000

[Michael Kraemer]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply schrieb:

> I also like the XP1000 as a hobbyist system.  What would you recommend 
> as better?  A DS10?

I fear there's not much beyond XP900/1000.
In the Alpha universe there's no equivalent
to HP's C8000 or IBM's IntelliStation 185,
it seems.

> Define "genuine workstation". 

What's so hard to understand here?
Something office-friendly, specifically designed to serve
as a graphics desktop. One might add:
with non-intel CPU and an OS not coming from Redmond :-)

> Is a DS10 with a graphics card a genuine 
> workstation? 

That would be an XP900.
I don't know what its creators had in mind first,
server or workstation use.
But given its relatively low noise level and the
form factor (and colour) resembling the AlphaStation 500,
it looks more like a workstation.
Given its limited RAM slots (2GB max) it also
makes a rather poor server.

> Wasn't some variant of the ES40 even sold as a 
> workstation?

Well, I wouldn't count a bulky/noisy server with
a slapped-in graphics card as a real workstation.