[Info-vax] rx2800i2 sales/support window changes

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-02-13, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 14-02-13 10:58, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>
>> VMS will not be more supported on an emulator, so
>> you win little by degrading from IA64 to Alpha.
>>
>> If you plan to run un-supported after 2025, you can
>> just as well run it on real (self-supported) hardware.
>
>
> Emulated solution gives you more modern component supports, in
> particular disks and networking interconnects. Your old IA64 or physical
> alpha will give you the equivalent of a Thick Coax ethernet 10mbps half
> duplex compared to todays 10gbps fibre interconnect.

Not just networking but disk access speeds as well.  I have never seen
shadowing work as fast on real VAXes or Alphas as on emulations of those
on quite modest hardware by today's standards.

> Finding good old 50 pin SCSI drives today to fit 10 year old hardware is
> pretty hard. Fast forward 10 more years and finding disks for todays's
> SATA/SAS drives will be just as hard.
>
> For those truly attached at the hip to VMS, emulation is likely the best
> long term solution in my opinion.

Yep.

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Paul Sture