[Info-vax] Is a simple to use virtual Alpha aready feasible?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-12-11 21:01:11 +0000, tadamsmar said:

> On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 1:00:11 PM UTC-5, BillPedersen wrote:
>> 
>> Well, a DS10L with 512MB, 20+GB disk, diskette and CD for approximately 
>> $500 from a reseller in the US.  Out performs PersonalAlpha DS20 on HP 
>> Proliant p6710f (AMD Athlon II X4 640 3 GHz) as well as any other 
>> "free" Alpha emulator.
> 
> The price on those is hard to beat.

Or ~US$650 for an rx2660 with four 146 GB SFF disks, RAID controller, 
DVD, 8 GB of memory, and a 1.42 GHz dual-core Itanium.

> Would license paks for a DS10 also work on a DS10L?  No more units needed?

Technically, yes.  As for the particular licenses, check the terms of 
the agreement.  Hobbyists?  Very likely yes, though I'm not conversant 
in the most recent of those agreements.  As for the commercial license 
PAKs, that requires a license transfer fee paid to HP, and AFAIK the 
base OS licenses travel with the system so there may or may not be 
licenses with the new box, and the licenses might be for Unix.   
Obtaining new base OS licenses usually involves buying a box from an HP 
reseller.  Some other sort of license PAKs?  Check the agreements 
involved.


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