[HECnet] NT 4 on AlphaServer es40

beg to differ, nt on apha in mid nineties had no viruses, worms, trojans, et cetera, (which begs the question if that was the reason MS dumped it) On 2/11/13, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 02/11/2013 03:44 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: I'm attempting to get NT 4 installed on my alpha server es40 is there an NT 4 TSE hardware support disk for this? I got it to boot using the DS20 disk but despite having 2 keyboards plugged in neither work in NT setup (this is early setup, too!) Any ideas? The ES40 hates this damn keyboard... The stuff you're trying to mate is like 15-20 years apart...I really don't think you're going to have much luck there. 15 years? TSE was released in 1998, the ES40 in 2000/2001, and the current firmware build was released in 2007! I don't know what "TSE" is, but I could've sworn the ES40 was more like 2005, and NT for Alpha died (thank heaven) YEARS before 1998. Terminal Services Edition. You might be thinking of the discontinuation date for the ES40. I don't think so, but either way.. Perhaps they (stupidly) kept supporting it ? It seems they half-stopped supporting it. There are DS20 drivers (2001 again) yet support WAS dropped in 1998. 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. ;) NT on Alpha had even less reason to exist than NT on DECstations. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA