Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
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Re: Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
#2Emulating Alpha on x86_64 is definitely not a thing the Alpha designers foresaw. :-)
Re: Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
#3did anyone ever run W2k on an ES40 in production?
the only dec hardware I ever touched that ran windows was an AlphaServer 1000, and my assignment was to get it back to running VMS. though, I'll admit now, i goldbricked a bit and spent some time trying out Digital UNIX first.
Re: Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
#4did anyone ever run W2k on an ES40 in production? the only dec hardware I ever touched that ran windows was an AlphaServer 1000, and my assignment was to get it back to running VMS. though, I'll admit now, i goldbricked a bit and spent some time trying out Digital UNIX first.
I never saw Win 2K on Alpha...
I worked at a mostly DEC shop for a while. They had transitioned their main product from VAX to Alpha. Most of the systems ran Digital Unix and VMS, but there was an AlphaServer with NT 4.
Re: Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
#5did anyone ever run W2k on an ES40 in production? the only dec hardware I ever touched that ran windows was an AlphaServer 1000, and my assignment was to get it back to running VMS. though, I'll admit now, i goldbricked a bit and spent some time trying out Digital UNIX first.
I had to run NT4 on a 4100 in prod at my very first Internet startup job.
We also had a bunch of 1000 and 1000a's, and an AlphaStation running AltaVista firewall all on NT.
An ALR 6x6 (6* Pentium Pros) was faster for Windows than the fully loaded out AS4100 IIRC. Except that the 4100 supported more memory and PCI slots IIRC.
Re: Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
#6did anyone ever run W2k on an ES40 in production? the only dec hardware I ever touched that ran windows was an AlphaServer 1000, and my assignment was to get it back to running VMS. though, I'll admit now, i goldbricked a bit and spent some time trying out Digital UNIX first.
My friend Eric, had an unused Alpha server 4100 under his desk...It was used for testing more than a year ago, ( in the early 2000s ). He asked for the install disks, and got a entire box of everything it came with VMS/Ultrix/NT 3.5.. We tried to use raid, but none of the drivers worked. So what... we loaded NT, then Digital UNIX, and finally VMS, but we knew nothing about VMS, so one disk for NT, and one for Digital UNIX. The floating point was outstanding. just wish there was more software for it.
Re: Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
#7Emulating Alpha on x86_64 is definitely not a thing the Alpha designers foresaw. :-)
But does it have FX!32 working to run important x86 software in there?
Re: Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
#8OK, I imagine that involved quite some challenges. Well done. But why? I fail to see a purpose. Is it just a DOOM runs on my smart toaster kind of thing or something that has production value?
Re: Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
#9This is pretty cool, it brings back memories. Thanks for posting.
I used to manage Tru64 (Alpha) and OpenVMS (VAX and Alpha). Mostly Oracle DB and whatever they called their App development suite (horrible, horrible software) for a University's ERP system (called Banner) and infrastructure (Multinet on OpenVMS/VAX for DNS, DHCP, mail, etc). After that I moved on to AIX on Power5 for Oracle on HACMP and Veritas Cluster. Such a different world from what we have now.
I have an old AlphaServer ES47 running OpenVMS and Power5 560Q running AIX in my garage