[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Howard S Shubs]

In article <kdh9j3$klp$1 at dont-email.me>,
 Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:

> The current "entry-level" dual-socket boxes offering recent Itanium 
> chips are either going to be part-populated, or serious overkill, or 
> both.  For a number of the OpenVMS applications I've worked with over 
> the years, a small single-core box would do very nicely.   The current 
> entry-level rx2800 i2 and i4 boxes are some serious power, and rather 
> more complex (and correspondingly also more expensive) than necessary.  
> That's before you add in the cluster license prices, too.  All of which 
> were part of what Mr Dachtera was often commenting on, in past years...

rx2600, then?  Personally, as a programmer, I wouldn't spend money on 
VMS at this point.

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