<div dir="ltr">Regarding #4:<br><br>4) Would anyone on this list care to prove these guys wrong (<br>
<a href="http://64.223.189.234/node/640" target="_blank">http://64.223.189.234/node/640</a> ) by virtualizing OpenVMS in VMWare<br>
or Xen?<br>
<br><br>Well sorta. It's not really virtualization, it's emulation, but it's liable to be faster than many of the VAXen or Alphas it'd replace. Probably not the Intel Itanium-based VMS boxes available now, but....<br>
<br>I have SIMH set up and emulating a VAX running VMS on my Mac Book Pro. Does that count? ;-) It's almost certainly faster than the last VAXen I used 6 or 7 years ago. <br><br>SIMH is available for other OSes as well. And I suppose I could use VMWare or Parallels or VirtualBox to run multiple copies of SIMH too... Does that count?<br>
<br>There are third-party commercial VAX and Alpha emulators that run on top of Windows as well. They are used for EXACTLY the same thing many organizations use VMWare for - to consolidate (or replace) older slower hardware on newer cheaper Windows/Linux server boxes. Virtualization via emulation.<br>
<br>Wish I did have an Alpha lying around. I'd hoped to get my hands on a desktop Alpha when Morningstar bought out my old employer (Standard & Poor's Fund Services) and closed us down last year, but I didn't get the chance.<br>
<br> - Bill<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Josh More <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:morej@alliancetechnologies.net">morej@alliancetechnologies.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So, we've got a DEC Alpha 4100 that just lost it's CPU fan.<br>
<br>
1) Would anyone on this list happen to have a 12-49995-01 kicking<br>
around?<br>
<br>
2) Would anyone on this list happen to have a processor card or three<br>
that are compatible with the Alpha 4100?<br>
<br>
3) Would anyone on this list happen to have an old VAX or Alpha laying<br>
about doing nothing buy causing your spouse/SO to complain every time<br>
they see it?<br>
<br>
4) Would anyone on this list care to prove these guys wrong (<br>
<a href="http://64.223.189.234/node/640" target="_blank">http://64.223.189.234/node/640</a> ) by virtualizing OpenVMS in VMWare<br>
or Xen?<br>
<br>
5) Would anyone on this list like to make fun of me for making this<br>
request shortly after extolling the virtues of legacy gaming systems on<br>
Linux? :)<br>
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<br>
-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC<br>
<a href="mailto:morej@alliancetechnologies.net">morej@alliancetechnologies.net</a><br>
515-245-7701<br>
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