[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sejcde$l4l$2 at dont-email.me>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
writes: 

> >>> You could buy her a new M1 MacBook and use the old one for virtualbox
> >>>> I'd call that a win-win
> >>>
> >>> But I would need at least half a dozen: three nodes is the minimum for a
> >>> cluster, then spares.
> >>
> >> You might have described it earlier, but...
> >>
> >> *Why* do you need to run a cluster in your home/hobbyist environment?
> > 
> > Maybe he likes to play with VMS cluster.
> > 
> > Anyway - there should not be a problem running 3 VM's with
> > VMS On that MacBook.
> > 
> > And the need for spares should more or less go away for hobbyists
> > with commodity HW / VM support. There is not really any point
> > in stocking large number of x86-64 machines in case one break.

> Or old Storageworks cabinets and disks. :-)

Yes, I have enough to last me until I die, and will be using them as 
long as I use Alpha.  

x86 spares might be easier to source, but a) I would need at least a few 
to last me until I could source more and b) of course only those which 
could run bare-metal VMS would be suitable (but based on the Python 
script posted here a while back, that should be many (most? all?)).