16 Aug
2000
16 Aug
'00
11:26 a.m.
VAX 4000, MicroVAX 3100, and all associated options are being retired.
Final order date is September 30,2000. The last ship date will be Dec 31,2000.
http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/vax/vax_dates.html
The VAX is dead. Long Live the VAX!
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17 Aug
17 Aug
5:13 a.m.
VAX 4000, MicroVAX 3100, and all associated options
are being retired.
Final order date is September 30,2000.
The last ship date will be Dec 31,2000.
http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/vax/vax_dates.html
The VAX is dead. Long Live the VAX!
Nah, it will live on for a long time.... But, for the sake of discussion,
would this free up machines for us to play with? I would expect that once
it is officially dropped, folks will be avoiding them like the plague.
Mebbie that will free some up from the cloistered shadows for NetBSD use?
Bob
5:22 a.m.
VAX 4000,
MicroVAX 3100, and all associated options are being retired.
Final order date is September 30,2000.
The last ship date will be Dec 31,2000.
http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/vax/vax_dates.html
The VAX is dead. Long Live the VAX!
Nah, it will live on for a long time.... But, for the sake of discussion,
would this free up machines for us to play with? I would expect that once
it is officially dropped, folks will be avoiding them like the plague.
Mebbie that will free some up from the cloistered shadows for NetBSD use? 
11 Sep
11 Sep
11:44 a.m.
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, NetBSD Bob wrote:
For the sake of discussion, and preservation....
anyone at Compaq have any
spare hardware manuals that they could make available or add to what already
exists, online here and there? Hardware manuals are always what I never
seem to be able to find. Collectively, we should gather the info up,
before it becomes vaporware unobtainium.
Bob
Plenty of the hardware documents are available (internally at Compaq) as
scanned PDF files. And those documents will at least not end up in
/dev/null.
--
J?rgen Pehrson jorgen.pehrson(a)compaq.com
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17 Aug
17 Aug
12:11 p.m.
Nah, it will live on for a long time.... But, for the
sake of discussion,
would this free up machines for us to play with? I would expect that once
it is officially dropped, folks will be avoiding them like the plague.
Mebbie that will free some up from the cloistered shadows for NetBSD use?
Bob
Actually I'm suspecting that it might have the opposite effect, make it
harder to get them, at least the decent systems. Those that still need the
systems will be searching that much harder for good used systems. Remember
not everyone can move to Alpha-based OpenVMS systems, either because of
odd-ball hardware widgets, or software that isn't available on the Alpha and
can't be VEST'd. For example, as just came up on comp.os.vms, if you're
dependent on the old VMS CAI software for some reason, you're stuck on VAX.
It'll be just like on the PDP-11 where some stuff is easy to get and no one
wants, other stuff is much sought after commerically.
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