[Info-vax] Reasons to Abandon Windows For Lunix

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In article <q963dt$a0j$1 at dont-email.me>
Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/16/2019 8:30 PM, Supratim Sanyal <"supratim sanyal wrote:
> > On 4/16/19 8:16 PM, Supratim Sanyal <"supratim sanyal wrote:
> >> On 4/16/19 3:23 PM, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
> >>> In article <3919f20490e1c8846759a34394785559 at remailer.privacy.at>
> >>> "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster at remailer.privacy.at>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What about Solaris? I have 11.4 X86 running on a Sun
> >>>>> X2100 server which has a single dual core AMD Athlon
> >>>>> and 4 GB RAM.
> >>>>
> >>>> what about it?  i have windows 2k axp running on an alpha.
> >>>
> >>> Really?  You got an .ISO of it you can upload or torrent?
> >>>
> >> Its freely downloadable using a (also free to register) Oracle
> >> Technical Resources account; see
> >> http://www.oracle.com/webapps/redirect/signon?nexturl=https://www.oracle.com/technical-resources/
> >>
> > oops, the question was about w2k/alpha :(
>
> I'm wondering if anyone really would want to run WEENDOZE on an ALpha?
> If so, I once had a CD that had WEENDOZE for Alpha laying around.

We (Major warehousing / logistics forwarder) ran Windows NT 4.0 
Enterprise Alpha on 300+ AlphaServer 4100s for many years.  Very 
reliable for us.  Tried some 8200s with NT, but we were testing 
Citrix on Proliant servers and eventually retired all the 
AlphaNT platforms.

We ran VMSClusters and PathWorks as well.

Novell and IBM tried to get us off those platforms all the time. 
 Management told them both to take a hike.  They weren't going 
to fix anything that wasn't broken.

> Since I'm a packrat, it still might be laying around somewhere.
>
> Since I'm a packrat, it might be a long search.