On 10/13/2017 6:36 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctalk wrote:
On 10/13/17, 6:50 AM, "cctalk on behalf of Zane Healy via cctalk"
<[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote:
The system can actually run stock 8.4? I believe that at least the
latest 8.4 release from VSI requires a 21264 CPU.
VSI here :-)
While it¹s not supported, and hasn¹t been qualified, 8.4 - including the
VSI release 8.4-2L1 for Alpha - would probably run fine on a DEC 3000 or
4000. The one release that won¹t run on it is 8.4-2L2, which is the
performance build version of 8.4-2L1. Performance build means that the
compiler was told to optimize for EV6, and hence it won¹t run on anything
older than that.
Camiel.
I am using the Hobbyist Alpha OpenVMS version, which I downloaded on
Monday.
The next time I start it up what command do I issue to get the full 8.4
version I am using?
Included in the distro were updates:
VMS84A_UPDATE-V1000.ZIPEXE, openvms_alpha_8_4_update500,
openvmsalphav84-tcp57eco5
A cursory look at the 8.4 documentation left me confused about required
updates needed before I performed these updates.
Here is the text that confused me:
Mandatory Kit Dependencies: VMS84A_PCSI-V0400 or later
Wasn't included in the distro.
I installed the Fortran compiler, which went OK. But, was warned not to
install the CXML library because of missing Fortran RTL files.
Probably isn't your role to comment on the Hobbyist version, but these
are some initial questions I've run into. Maybe someone else can answer.
Thanks.
Doug
