[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[John Dallman]

In article <MPG.3fbe17f5472275899897b8 at news.eternal-september.org>,
jpsa at cantab.net (John Aldridge) wrote:

> Yup. There was a lovely few months when the fastest x86 processor 
> was actually an Alpha running the FX!32 x86 emulator :)

Between the release of fx!32 and the release of the Pentium II? 

Our customer support staff found something that was a really bad idea:
installing x86 Active Desktop on Alpha NT. It worked - kind of - but it
was slower than anyone could believe, and un-installing it lunched the
machine. We wiped and rebuilt them, gave customer support Intels, and
used the Alphas for software build and test. 

They did pretty well at that, once we got the RAM replaced in one of them.
The user had complained it crashed a lot, but since he was in the habit
of turning the machine off rather than close lots of programs (he was a
former boxer, and didn't do subtlety) we discounted that. But linking a
30MB DLL with debug information produced a reliable BSOD, and DEC
replaced the memory without argument once we had a repro case. 

John