| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 79.1 | Checking With OpenVMS PM | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Wed Apr 09 1997 10:09 | 0 |
| 79.3 | ... hmmm ... | BEET::EAGAN | Among the fashion impaired... | Wed Apr 09 1997 11:12 | 30 |
| From: MSBCS::NEE "John Nee - Volume Servers Prod. Mgt" 9-APR-1997
09:02:38.90
To: BEET::EAGAN
CC: NEE
Subj: 5/375 communique
The EV56 5/375 (GammaRAY) module is about to commence shipping from
manufacturing.
- NIO and AYO are now authorized to ship either Field Upgrades or AS2000
EV56/375 systems
However;
During the final qualification testing of the AlphaServer 5/375 CPU module,
the determination was made that OpenVMS support will require significant
additional effort and time to port on this CPU. In view of the fact that this
incremental investment will distract our resources from the current OpenVMS
development activities, and may not be available in time to meet customer's
requirement, it was decided that this specific CPU would be supported only on
the Windows NT and UNIX operating systems. This is an isolated decision and in
NO way diminishes our strong committment to OpenVMS systems.
Regards,
John Nee
AlphaServer 2x00
Product Manager
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| 79.4 | | AUSS::GARSON | DECcharity Program Office | Wed Apr 09 1997 19:32 | 2 |
| Just curious but what does this CPU do differently that requires the
porting effort?
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| 79.5 | The Platform Teams Perform Much Of The Target OpenVMS Testing... | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Thu Apr 10 1997 14:27 | 11 |
| : Just curious but what does this CPU do differently that requires the
: porting effort?
I'm curious too, there was a proposal in the POR (Plan Of
Record) to bring this system in under DSR on V6.2-1H3.
(On exactly _zero_ knowledge, I suspect this may have been
more of a question around the resources to do the testing
in the GammaRay group...) As mentioned, I've passed this
along to the OpenVMS PM that maintains the POR.
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| 79.6 | <bzzt!> thanks for playing... | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Thu Apr 10 1997 14:43 | 8 |
| : (On exactly _zero_ knowledge, I suspect this may have been
: more of a question around the resources to do the testing
: in the GammaRay group...)
My guess was wrong.
OpenVMS is not presently supported on GammaRay.
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| 79.7 | | STAR::KLEINSORGE | Fred Kleinsorge, OpenVMS Engineering | Thu Apr 10 1997 15:03 | 6 |
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Please refer any questions regarding this issue to Bill Hanley, the
OpenVMS Product Manager for hardware platform support. Due to reasons
beyond our control, OpenVMS cannot support this hardware platform.
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| 79.8 | going into politics? | AUSS::GARSON | DECcharity Program Office | Thu Apr 10 1997 19:53 | 3 |
| re .7
Hmmm. Sounds bad.
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| 79.9 | | STAR::KLEINSORGE | Fred Kleinsorge, OpenVMS Engineering | Fri Apr 11 1997 09:46 | 11 |
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>going into politics?
Nope. I inhaled, admit to having enjoyed premarital bliss, still
pronounce Reagan "Ray-Gun-Zap", enjoy non-PC vices like cigars and
scotch, and think social security is a scam that should be
discontinued. I also live amongst the republicans in NH, and think the
only bigger idiot in congress than Newt is Dick Army.
;-)
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| 79.10 | | DECCXL::OUELLETTE | temerity time | Fri Apr 11 1997 14:42 | 5 |
| > only bigger idiot in congress than Newt is Dick Army.
Dunno. Jesse gets my vote.
Someone must have their head screwed on wrong if VMS can't support
an apparantly useful platform & the reason isn't engineering.
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| 79.11 | Not Our Call... | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Mon Apr 14 1997 10:46 | 6 |
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:Someone must have their head screwed on wrong if VMS can't support
:an apparantly useful platform & the reason isn't engineering.
Please check with Bill -- this decision was made outside of OpenVMS.
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| 79.12 | | DECCXL::OUELLETTE | temerity time | Mon Apr 14 1997 12:56 | 1 |
| Yup. There are other considerations.
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| 79.8 | | ZIMBRA::BERNARDO | Dave Bernardo, VMS Engineering | Mon Apr 14 1997 23:29 | 4 |
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