[Info-vax] OpenVMS development tooling

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/30/2021 10:41 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Friday, October 1, 2021 at 2:47:36 PM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 9/30/2021 9:38 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 8:13:12 PM UTC+13, dgso... at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Where can I buy a modern affordable PowerPC desktop computer with
>>>> similar performance to current generation Intel gear?
>>>
>>> I don’t think “PowerPC” exists as a separate brand any more: it’s all “POWER” now.
>>>
>>> And a few minutes’ searching was enough to reveal such as these:
>>>
>> Did you read them?
> 
> Maybe more than you did.

Obviously not.

>>> http://www.tyan.com/EN/solution/openpower
>>
>> Servers not desktops.
> 
> Too grunty for you?

The question was "Where can I buy a modern affordable PowerPC desktop
computer with similar performance to current generation Intel gear?".

That makes servers irrelevant.

>>> https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
>>
>> There are desktop systems here.
>>
>> But I will not call them affordable. Prices vary from 4765 to 6825.
>> And that is before upgrades!
> 
> Well, the OP did ask about performance. What price of Intel machine would you need to match that?

About 1/10th of that,

The 4765 box has 4 cores, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD and no graphics.

Dell sell a 6 cores, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, som cheap graphics and
a Windows license for 510.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/inspiron-desktop/spd/inspiron-3891-desktop/nd3891evyms

I suspect you can get some noname tower PC a bit cheaper.

Arne