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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

8621.0. "UNIX on PWS 433a ?" by MEDINA::BEELEN (Kidolo n'dani ya p� yango) Tue Jan 28 1997 10:47

    Is it possible to boot UNIX 4.0 on a DIGITAL Personal Workstation 433a
    (for internal use) ?
    
    William
    
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8621.1probably notNETRIX::"[email protected]"Farrell WoodsTue Jan 28 1997 11:088
What processor is the 433a?  An Intel?

Digital UNIX runs on the Alpha.  Period.


	-- Farrell

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8621.2netrix.lkg.dec.com::thomasThe Code WarriorTue Jan 28 1997 11:341
He's talking about the multia and the answer is eventually.
8621.3QUARRY::nethCraig NethTue Jan 28 1997 12:335
>He's talking about the multia and the answer is eventually.

Didn't you mean to say 'miata'?   The multia is dead.   


8621.4Re: .1 - the naming convention has changed.PERFOM::HENNINGTue Jan 28 1997 13:0829
    "a" means Alpha in the "Personal Workstation" series.
    
    
    We are now on our THIRD naming convention for Alpha Workstations in
    less than one year.
    
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      1    23-Feb-96  AlphaStation 600 5/333 Pedestal, Cabinet, and     SU2702
                      Rackmount Workstations
    
    -----------------------------------------------------
    
    AlphaStation 255 Family of 64-Bit Desktop Workstations        Sales Update  
    DATE POSTED:  7-MAR-1996    LAST REVIEW:  7-MAR-1996    LENGTH: 0013 Pages
    
    *  Models 255/233 and 255/300; new PCI-based Alpha desktop client 
       workstations support Digital UNIX, OpenVMS Alpha, and Windows NT
    
    -----------------------------------------------------
    
    MAYNARD, Mass. -- 8 January, 1997 --
                                 Digital Equipment Corporation, the world's
                                 leading supplier of Windows NT personal
                                 workstations, today announced two new models
                                 based on the company's fastest 64- bit Alpha
                                 microprocessors. DIGITALs new Personal
                                 Workstation 500a and 433a deliver breakthrough
    
8621.5So what ?MEDINA::BEELENKidolo n'dani ya p� yangoWed Jan 29 1997 02:053
    So what ? Is it possible or not ?
    
    William
8621.6So it's a business decisionPERFOM::HENNINGWed Jan 29 1997 07:052
    Send your cards and letters to workstation product management.  Tell
    them "I can sell 500 of these during the next 5 weeks if I have Unix."
8621.7No and YesWASTED::mapMark Parenti, Unix Engineering GroupWed Jan 29 1997 11:159
This is the NT version of the Miata. There will be a variant that runs
Digital UNIX in the not-too-distant future. As for the current boxes,
this is the answer I got from someone in the know:


	No. It's a different family (systype). It won't be recognized.


Mark
8621.8A question of $$$VNASWS::HAUSBIts a hard life in the mountainsTue Feb 04 1997 04:289
But be aware:

	Customers will have to pay the "Unix-penalty" it will 
      	probably more expensive than the NT-variant..........

	(The differance is not just the delta of the licences)

G.H.
8621.9under it's alternate guise of OSF/1 ;-)finder.uvo.dec.com::COFFEYJLa Feline Flooz - a unix catMon Feb 10 1997 09:245
>Digital UNIX runs on the Alpha.  Period.

Unless you can get an original release that'll 
run on a couple of risc boxes too :-)