[Info-vax] OpenVMS Potential Platform of Interest: Intel NUCs

[John Wallace]

On 27/06/2022 12:44, Bob Gezelter wrote:
> A small form factor box like this would be a good platform for OpenVMS in a wide variety of customer and developer contexts. Using it as a VM host would be a good starting point Some complexity would be reduced by direct support for bare hardware operation.
> 
> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/leak-of-next-gen-intel-nuc-combines-a-12th-gen-cpu-with-intels-discrete-arc-gpu/

Why this particular product for this particular market sector? As Hoff 
and others have noted, the Intel-badged NUC product family has long 
seemed like a product looking for a niche.

Other x86-64 offerings might be a better fit at more sensible prices for
those still chained to the Wintel deadweight.The Proliant Microserver 
family may be worth a look. Yes I know it's HPe, but names like 
SuperMicro might not be everybody's choice either, and Apple seemingly 
have no official interest in this kind of market.

One word of caution: HPe's Gen10 Plus Microserver has seemingly reverted 
to Intel rather than AMD/Opteron/etc, with some corresponding negatives 
in price and functionality.

Possible further reading:
https://www.itpro.co.uk/infrastructure/server-storage/358198/hpe-proliant-microserver-gen10-plus-review-pint-sized

https://www.servethehome.com/hpe-proliant-microserver-gen10-review/