[tech] searching for DEC-compatible network cards

[Adrian Chadd]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005, Matt Johnston wrote:

> > I don't think either would really be used. There's plenty of CPU and
> > resources there if someone had a project requiring it, but who is?
> 
> I reckon we should put two aside to run VMS though. Enough
> to do vague migratey nifty things with them, but not wasting
> a whole bunch.

Just so you know, Packrat and I have amassed a small collection
of alphastations which function quite well as VMS cluster nodes.
The cluster is offline (we're waiting for morwong to be properly
decommissioned so we can buy it and turn it into a mirrored disk
node in the cluster) but it'd be nice to have it online again.
If only for people who are interested in how VMS does things -
a lot of the things it does is Quite Right (distributed lock
manager, transaction based filesystem, etc) and the documentation
really is quite nice. It might surprise people..




Adrian