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DEC made excellent hardware. I'm still using a dual processor AlphaServer DS25 full time, in colo, for production hosting and building NetBSD pkgsrc packages:
by johnklos 5y ago
DEC made excellent hardware. I'm still using a dual processor AlphaServer DS25 full time, in colo, for production hosting and building NetBSD pkgsrc packages:
https://twitter.com/AnachronistJohn/status/1355995990398881793 https://twitter.com/AnachronistJohn/status/13559959903988817...
It has the updated 21264C-6 (EV68CB) processors, which are still very speedy, all things considered.
- protomyth 5y agoI loved DEC PCs (4xx series). They were rock solid. They did make one crazy machine in the DEC Rainbow 100. It was beyond weird, but I guess solid.
- Damogran6 5y agoYou and me both. Work got one as a POC and they kinda forgot about it and it landed under my desk...I was then able to wrangle a Pentium upgrade kit for it. It was a beast and incredibly well built.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoAssuming that's you: Could you possibly explain > What I think is the only 1U VAX in the world ? Is that a custom job where you stuffed the guts in a smaller case?
- virgulino 5y agohttp://claire.zia.io http://claire.zia.io http://lilith.zia.io http://lilith.zia.io That's amazing!
- nickt 5y agoA 1U Amiga 1200 serving up web pages. Can’t be too many of them.
- tempodox 5y agoThe DEC Alpha running OSF was by far my favorite Unix system at the time.
- tssva 5y agoThey also had an excellent field technical staff. After Compaq purchased them it was always a roll of the dice as to whether you were going to get an excellent former DEC technician or an awful Compaq technician. Unfortunately the former DEC technicians quickly disappeared.