[Info-vax] MIcrovax 3100-98

[Scott Dorsey]

Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>I recently looked at AMD's new CPUs.  Guess what.  The only drivers 
>available are for WEENDOZE 10.  Which I won't boot up.

I'm running Centos 7 on the latest AMD hardware, and it's been fine.  If only
the LSI raid controllers on those machines were half as solid.

Have not tried Slackware on those systems yet but that's one of my projects
for next week.

Do not expect VMS support for them... they are sufficiently different than 
the Intel processors that some kernel tweaking is likely needed.

In terms of system reliability... what I see failing on server-grade PCs
today (other than power supplies and disks, both of which I consider to be
disposable items) are electrolytic capacitors, fans, and RoHS issues.  All
of these are easy to deal with on the maintenance bench other than  the RoHS
failures.  Keep the case temperatures way down and these systems will last
a good long while... let the case temperatures get out of hand and you will
have BGAs with intermittent connections very fast.
--scott

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