On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 7:28 PM, Zane Healy <heal...@avanthar.com> wrote:
> I had found a nearly new PWS 433a in a used computer shop, that didn’t > know what it was worth > > Likely to have been one of the NT/Alpha's in the wild. It was a dirty little secret in ZKO and MRO that they worked fine with Tru64 and OpenVMS. Purely a cost issue. It was cheaper and faster to get the NT/Alpha HW - so they became a popular internal development systems for support for the Adaptec chipset (who's number I now forget). But marketing never accepted because of the failover issue for clusters. I never understood that. My argument was that nobody was going to put a $1M cluster at risk with a $100 PCI card. We could have just stated in the SPD that the Adaptec chip set was supported on single (small) systems such as Workstations, DS10, DS20 etc... But I lost that war. ᐧ
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