On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:51:18AM -0500, David Boyes wrote: > I think I'd probably recommend another Alpha, or a medium sized Intel > box. Of course, if it was mine and budget was no object, I'd get a small > Itanium box and run VMS or TOPS-20 on it. 8-) But, I'm weird that way.
The goal here is to get away from the Alpha, because there's not much development work going on for it any more. Linux for the mainframe doesn't have that problem. (Is that true enough of the 31-bit versions?) Under no circumstances will I run an x86 or x86_64 platform natively as a server on the net. Don't get me wrong, folks: the only reason I'm looking at other solutions besides Hercules is that I'm not too sure about the overall reliability of PC-class hardware in 24x7 service. It's otherwise more than good enough and, I believe, fast enough (especially given the speed of the DSL it'll be talking over). OTOH, David Boyes's comments on the MP3000's power supply are certainly giving me pause...especially since the last failure I had on the Alphaserver was a power supply. -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.cx http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!) Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
