[Info-vax] MIcrovax 3100-98

[Dave Froble]

On 11/16/2019 9:56 AM, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> On 10/31/2019 10:45 PM, Kerry Main wrote:
>>
>>> They all laughed and one of them stated he could not remember when they had
>>> a VAX HW problem.
>>>
>>> Good testament to the VAX HW, but not so good for new sales.
>>
>> And doesn't that sort of depend on whether you're the vendor, or, a
>> customer?
>>
>> Then there was the AlphaStation 200 power supplies.  Dropped like flies.
>>
>> Getting 3 years out of today's PCs is very good luck.  And that's with
>> HW in general being more robust.
>
> I beg to differ. My current home "server" got its last major update, a new
> (faster) AMD CPU 9 years ago. Has been working fine since. The only h/w
> changes since then was a harddisk upgrade for capacity reasons. And that
> is what is basically workstation grade h/w, not a dedicate server machine.

Don't you think doing upgrades is saying the original system is no 
longer adequate?

It's not just HW failures that cause a system to need an upgrade.

Not all CPUs, or memory, use the same motherboard socket.

> Not buying the cheapest crap does help with that, I admit.
>
> My home workstation also got a new mainboard, cpu, memory and an SSD several
> years ago - not because the old kit failed, but because noticeable performance
> gains were available with newer hardware. Things like memory 8 -> 16 GB, a
> hybrid RAID1 (spinning rust + ssd) for the root fs and and such.

You've just made my point.  You replaced an old inadequate system as 
soon as you needed to upgrade it.


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