[HECnet] Sort of off-topic, co-locating area 8

Thanks Hans ;-) Brett On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote: Three white box Alpha's will run VMS along with NT 4: the Digital Server 3300, 5305 and the 7305. The modification is found on home.zonnet.nl/hvlems and look for White Box Alpha's. The 5305 won't run True64 though. Hans -----Original Message----- From: Brett Bump <bbump at rsts.org> Sender: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:49:22 To: <hecnet at Update.UU.SE> Reply-To: hecnet at Update.UU.SESubject: Re: [HECnet] Sort of off-topic, co-locating area 8 On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Dave McGuire wrote: On 01/22/2013 09:31 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: Is that a proper Xeon or a P4 Xeon? No idea..But yeah, I'm going to get a beefy server with serious internet access (the place provides a gigabit pipe) for running various fun stuff on. Of course if other HECnet users have an idea for a cool project to run as a VM on the server, that'd be fun too. Will you let me run NT 4 TSE on it? ;) I'd love NT 4 on a gigabit pipe... It's a sickness. I'm not too fond of windows past NT 4 for anything other than an occasional game. ;) I'd call it more masochism to be honest. I DID recently install it on a Pentium 4 though. ;) (Did you know it won't boot on a P4 HT?) I didn't. And from what they tell me, that knowledge is now IN my brain, and I cannot get those neurons back. -Dave I think Dave has a few extra neurons to spare. And if he can't get these back they must be core instead of dynamic. I think I'll see if we can get him to exhibit a RSTS "?Program lost, sorry" message. I still have 2 DECServer 3300's (Alpha's) that I installed NT4 TSE on some time back before the turn of the century. Dastardly slow, but the only platform I had at the time at home to practice on to get Citrix certified. They really ran FreeBSD nice though, and since I had loaded 4 drives in each one, I think I also had copies of NetBSD and Linux (loaded via Milo). I wish they had been able to run VMS, alas they were the white elephants. They wouldn't run FreeBSD V4, until we stole a patch from the NetBSD boys. Brett