10 Nov
2005
10 Nov
'05
9:41 a.m.
On Thursday 10 November 2005 12:07, Dan Williams wrote:
On 10/11/05, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at
gmail.com> wrote:
No, those were "DEC 3000"s. DECstations (3000/5000/etc) were all MIPS.
And, from what I've heard, at least one reason that DEC made Alpha, and
didn't port VMS to the MIPS architecture, is because they'd have to
make a lot of changes to VMS, because of its security model, in order
to make it work with MIPS. Aparently, MIPS just didn't work enough
like a VAX CPU to easily port VMS to it.
Pat
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Dan Williams wrote:
That's fine for Alphas, but DECstations are MIPS.
Peace... Sridhar
The Decstation 3000 range where Alphas, they had a 21064 chip. It's
really too bad that DEC never released a version of VMS for
DECstation. I'd be all over that.
Peace... Sridhar
The 3000/ 300, 400, 500 and 500x all run Openvms Alpha. Up to
which version I don't know, but I would assume current.