Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:26:45 -0600 From: "Schroeder, Aaron" <Aaron.Schroeder@qg.com> To: 'Craig Burgess' <craig@CheetahUSA.net>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: alpha <FreeBSD-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Should I wait for 5-RELEASE for "new" machine coming? Message-ID: <1F095B0753FCD411857700010333058A03DB9052@waexch1.qgraph.com>
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The 5305 was released by Digital as the "NT only" machine. Although it has SRM on it, it was only "certified" to run NT. In the Digital world, this first started with their StorageWorks products, but the RAID in the white casings was certified as "NT only". The blue and brown bricks were certified for all 3 platforms Digital worked on, NT, VMS, and Digital UNIX. That practice was the same on the Server products, hence why a Digital Server 5305 and Alpha Server 1200 were essentially the same machines. Just that the 1200 was brown, signifying that it was ready for all platforms. Actually, the whole Alpha Server line was a brown/beige color. The Digital Server line is white. Only towards the end did Digital make the blue Alpha Servers, now Compaq carries on with the blue AlphaServers. You may be surprised, they are probably the same machines inside. -----Original Message----- From: Craig Burgess [mailto:craig@CheetahUSA.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:37 AM To: Wilko Bulte; David O'Brien Cc: alpha Subject: RE: Should I wait for 5-RELEASE for "new" machine coming? Sure would be nice if there was consistency of part numbers, paint schemes, etc. From the "discussion" I first thought it might be AS1200 but it **was** described as "AlphaServer Ultimate Workstation" - which apparently was referred to as 533a(2) or 533au(2) - and the picture here (ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/workstations/uwdsheet.pdf) **does** look like it. (But so did the AS1200.) craig > -----Original Message----- > From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl] > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 10:59 PM > To: David O'Brien > Cc: Craig Burgess; alpha > Subject: Re: Should I wait for 5-RELEASE for "new" > machine coming? > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:37:04PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:12:21AM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:09:46PM -0800, Craig > Burgess wrote: > > > > So far I have this info: "Model 82-PBF5W-VA. Dual > Alpha 21164 64bit > > > > 533Mhz, 4 meg cache each... PBXGB-CA Powerstorm > Graphics." (It's > > > > > > Sounds like an AS1200 (??). Can you check the > picture gallery on > > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wilko/Alpha-gallery/ > > > > > > I think the AS1200 is the 5305. Is it white or blue? > > > > Is that the same as the Digital Ultimate Workstations? > > Hm, I think that was/is an XP1000? I'm not sure. Bl* marketing names. > > -- > | / o / /_ _ FreeBSD core team secretary > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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