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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-06-22 kl. 22:08, skrev 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.

Put the DVD in your PC and FTP the files over.
Probably easier then first having to find a working DVD for
your Alpha and then having to walk over to the Alpha.

>
>>> 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.
>

So you are developing on Alpha for Itanium targets?
Seems as a non-optimal testing scenario. But that also answers
why you force compilers onto your customer systems also.

>> 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.

And you are refusing to have one of your own? OK...