[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

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On Sun, 2023-04-16 at 10:51 -0500, John H Reinhardt wrote:
> > There is a report over in the VSI Forum of a success story running
> > VSI OpenVMS x86-64 E9.2-1 on baremetal:
> > 
> > https://forum.vmssoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=8621
> > 
> > And that forum is currently very busy with posts relating to
> > OpenVMS x86-64 ;-)
> > 
> > Volker.
> 
> Thanks Volker! I had missed that.  Looks like it was posted about 15
> minutes before I did here.  Of course, Scot asked for "supported" and
> we know what that means. ;) I did a quick Google search and that
> ASRock motherboard looks to be about 8 years old and out of stock
> most places.  Used on Ebay for prices between $150 and $500.  Could
> be an interesting experiment.  Have to watch the # of cores in the
> CPU you use as the VSI license only allows 6.

I've had the exact same motherboard years ago. Beware they tend to
develop faults.

There are other X99 motherboards out there that can do the same job
just as well. 

I am now using an AMD X399 motherboard with the 2xxxx series
threadripper processor. They work pretty nicely and supports ECC RAM.
These processors are an absolute bargain secondhand wise but not for
X399 motherboards, very few out out there and bloody expensive. 
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