A co-worker of mine just bought a VAXstation 4000/90
and a
DEC 3000/400. She wants to use one of them as a Mail Server
running OpenVMS. The VAX looks to have 104MB, the Alpha
looks to only have 96MB. Any idea on which would work best
for her? Part of what has me concerned is the lack of RAM on
I suspect that either would work. I run a VS4000-90A here
at home and it hums along quite nicely doing the odd compile
and running a web server. If I let the your hordes get to
the webserver I suspect the connection would die well
before the VAX!
The Alpha will be perhaps 2-3 times faster (at least
going by the SPEC numbers I can find for related
models and guessing a little based on frequencies).
104MB is certainly enough for the VAX to happily function
as a workstation - the additional cpu and memory load
from a webserver and mail server will be negligible
- at least for home use, I'd not plan on running a
large enterprise based on this! I forget exactly what kind of
memory the DEC 3000 took, but it's probably cheap enough
on ebay these days that it can be maxed out
if it's a problem.
Either OpenVMS or NetBSD would probably be fine for
this usage (although be sure to get the NetBSD 1.6
or so that fixed the non-fatal overwriting of
part of the console flash ... I think it was the
VS4000-9x that was hit).
I use the OSU webserver under OpenVMS and Apache
under Solaris. As a single user I'm unable to
cause either to die under load :-)
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org