[Info-vax] Alpha DVD

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2016-06-22 02:12:11 +0000, David Froble said:
> 
>> Does anyone know if any Alphas came with DVD drives?  Did ant itanics 
>> come with CD drives?
> 
> The IDE/ATA/ATAPI-capable Alpha boxes can have (and some were even 
> supported with) DVD drives.  HP sold a few specific DVD drives with/for 
> Alpha, as part of that.   All of the Plextor drives I've tried worked 
> well with OpenVMS, too.   The DVD+R/RW formats and media are likely to 
> work better with some of the tools than the DVD-R/RW stuff.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Maybe he can get you a Windows 10 box, or a macOS or Linux box, too?
> 
> 

NO!  NO!  and NO!