[Info-vax] Alpha V8.4-2 distribution

[David Froble]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2016-06-22 kl. 04:12, skrev David Froble:
>> David Froble wrote:
>>> Steven Schweda wrote:
>>>>> [...] asked David Turner for DVD drives ....
>>>>
>>>>    With a hardware description so detailed as "my Alpha", I
>>>> hesitate to offer much specific advice on optical drives,
>>>> but, in my main XP1000 I have "ALP$DKA600:, device type
>>>> TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1711" (with a Sun-gray bezel, consistent
>>>> with its origin).  I have another in a Sun 911 box (another
>>>> poor color match), which has helped with my
>>>> optical-drive-free rx2600 systems.  As all this might
>>>> suggest, it has a SCSI interface.
>>>
>>> Now that is helpful.  Color doesn't matter to me.
>>
>> Rats!  Got around to starting up the DS20.  Found out it has a RRD47,
>> another CD drive.
>>
>> Does anyone know if any Alphas came with DVD drives?
> 
> Now, you are free to use whatever you like in our Alpha, of course,
> but I have still to ask why you need an DVD in your DS20? There are
> no distribution media in DVD format for Alpha, as far as I know.

Well, the boss deals with HP and the developer's stuff.  I just tell him what I 
need.  Much better that way.  Then he writes the stuff on a DVD and sends it to 
me.  Don't suggest online, not with my crappy internet service.

>> Boss says I'm getting an itanic, RX2660 or something like that.  He 
>> doesn't
>> listen when I say I don't want an itanic.  Now I'm going to have to learn
>> how to run the damn thing.  Maybe it will have a DVD drive.
> 
> But that can not be decided based on that your boss "doesn't listen" or if
> you "don't want" an Itanium. It must be decided based on actual needs, not?

I can develop on Alpha just fine.  Don't need no itanic.

> And if you have deceded to port your software to Itanium, the rx2660
> isn't a bad server, is it?

All customers are on itanic.  RX2660 is from one who is upgrading to newer HW.