Re: VMS on ALPHA PC's

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From: Doug Mohney
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:32

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In article <1k8locINNb2a@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM>, dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard) writes:

>Since I understand DEC will be licensing Alpha, as well as VMS to whoever
>is willing to sign up and pay for it, why not buy the rights to do so, and
>then yourself sell VMS, OSF/1, MVS, whatever, on the AXP PC?  You might just
>have a market?

Do you have any idea what the entry level cost for a VMS source code license
would be, with the rights to distribute it? 

I don't, but I suspect it's not exactly pocket change. 

What's to prevent you from hooking up a VMS/AXP boot SCSI disk to an Alpha PC, 
with a couple of patches plugged in to say "Ignore EISA for now." 

Hmm. I guess the Ethernet & disk hardware might/would be different, to keep
costs down, but if they aren't...

                    I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
  -- >                  SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU                        < --

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From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
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Subject: Re: VMS on ALPHA PC's
Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:32:15 GMT
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