[Info-vax] Additional ethernet (e.g. 100BASE-TX) NIC for Multia/UDB?

[MG]

On 30-jan-2013 1:44, Hans Bachner wrote:
> You take me by surprise - do the V7.2 drivers (network, graphics) work
> with 7.3 as well?

Yes, they do.  You should probably contact Eberhard Heuser, he was kind
enough to share an image of his customized V7.3 installation CD.

I used that CD to install VMS on the tiny, stock, Toshiba 2½" Fast-
SCSI(?) 'notebook'-type disk at first and when it unfortunately died,
later on on the ~72 Gbyte IBM 2½" 'SFF' Ultra320 SCSI disk that I
still have in it, with my own 'custom' cabling.  (Works fine, although,
running Tru64 UNIX now...)


> Are you talking about the sources?
> The binaries are available on the Freeware V5 CD.

I only recall the boot floppy images, odd!  I'll soon take a look at
it then.  (Maybe you should also inform John Malmberg?)


> The one at home has a 233 MHz CPU, 152 MB of memory (added 128 to the
> original 24), an internal 518 MB Toshiba SCSI disk drive with Windows NT
> SP6 (several years ago, this was the PDC of my home Windows domain), and
> an external disk enclosure with two more disks - one with additional
> Windows file, and one with OpenVMS on it.

That sounds like a very nice system!  I've never felt what the 233 MHz
one 'feels' like, is it (very) noticeably faster?


> <http://b.it.co.at/cluster/IT-Symp-2006_Cluster.png>
>
> We built this cluster during the 2006 DECUS symposium in Düsseldorf,
> Germany. Half a dozen folks brought hardware and we just connected it to
> a three architecture, mixed physical/virtual, grossly mixed version,
> highly unsupported cluster :-)

That is an amazing cluster, nice to see you took a screenshot of that
terminal session!  I don't recall if I ever attempted to cluster my
Multia/UDB with the rest, back when I was still running a cluster.

  - MG