[Info-vax] AXP 433 with WinNT ...

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-03-23 15:36:39 +0000, Michael Moroney said:

> On 3/23/2021 10:22 AM, ni... at desmith.net wrote:
>> 
>> I have one of these systems. It may still run (I had it from new for a 
>> project many years ago...).
>> 
> Is this an Alphastation 400-233?

Prolly a Personal Workstation 433a, which'll run OpenVMS with the 
"newest" SRM firmware loaded, OpenVMS issues around the CD and the 
Intel SIO southbridge aside. The very similar but not identical 
Personal Workstation 433au had a different (and supported) Cypress 
southbridge.

http://hoffmanlabs.com/vmsfaq/vmsfaq_023.html#alpha22

PWS hardware is getting old, fussy to work inside the PWS and 
closely-related XP1000 box, and I've met a number of those boxes that 
have failed due to materials degradation.

Workable yes, but I'd be looking at something slightly newer if I 
needed or wanted Alpha hardware and didn't want to spend time with 
surgery; with printing and fitting clips, swapping caps, scrounging 
PCI-X and SCSI parts, and such.



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