9 Oct
2001
9 Oct
'01
12:54 p.m.
Anyway, I've heard that 64Meg RAM was awfully
tight to run VMS on an Alpha,
but is it still faster than Tru64 Unix? (The machine was no screamer, but
it was still faster than my wife... ;-) Or should I just sell it to someone
willing to give it a good home? (I have too many computers now - and I'm
trying to purchase a [smaller] house so may be moving soon... I *need* to
consolidate my collection & am downsizing machines which I will never have
time to tinker with...)
If the DEC 3000/300 is anything like a DEC 3000/300LX then you should be
able to get some 72-pin true parity SIMMs and upgrade your RAM. If you can
get it up to a minimum of 112MB it should work great. If you can get it up
to 96MB it will work OK. Less than 96MB, and it will work, but will
probably do a fair amount of swaping. OpenVMS V7.2 won't even load if
you've got less than 64MB RAM.
It's definitly a good VMS box, so I say keep it, get some more RAM for it, and
play with VMS on it. I used my DEC 3000/300LX as my OpenVMS server for a
while with a BA350 chassis attached to it for disks.
Zane