On 02/11/2013 03:58 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
That's frightening. They stopped pushing it as a viable platform in
like 1994. The last place I saw it deployed (not that there were many)
was gone by 1995.
Either way, though, NT on Alpha was very much a "first generation
Alphas" thing, and the ES family is a "last generation Alphas" thing.
I'd be shocked if it even came close to booting on a 21264-class
processor. ...which means I'm utterly shocked to hear of any DS20
support at all.
Well I learned something today. ;)
You know DEC, they loved supporting legacy products almost into oblivion.
Yes, for GOOD products...NT on Alpha was an utter failure by every metric.
I mean, when did they stop officially supporting PDP themselves?
Supporting I don't know, but the last PDP-11 to roll off the assembly
line did so on 9/30/1996. (see "good products" above)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA