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In article <1993Jan7.195359.1@vax.path.ox.ac.uk>, jasper@vax.path.ox.ac.uk writes:
>In article <4362@mitech.com>, gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette) writes:
>> How are people managing their sources now that there are two VMS
>> platforms, VAX and ALPHA?
>> 
>> For example, I would love to be able to access my CMS libraries
>> that are sitting on my VAX directly from my ALPHA machines.
>> However, CMS does not support any network operations, and mixed vms
>> clusters are not something that claim to be supported.
>> 
>
>Well, I don't have an Alpha (yet), but the word on the street is that you can
>cluster VAX and Alpha. 'and anonymous official from our favorite computer
>company" said that it would work, it just was 'not supported'. 
>
>Does anyone have a mixed cluster working? (Or aren't you allowed to say?)
>Letting us know that you are not allowed to say, will of course tell us that
>it works :) 

I have a DEC 3000/400 alpha in a cluster with a VAX 4000/500 and a bunch of
other VAXes using ethernet for communications. The alpha has its own
system disk, but all other files are on the 4000/500, including all
user files, rightslist, mail database, batch/print queue database, UAF,
etc. I have been running this way for about two weeks now, ever since
shortly after the alpha was delivered. The VAXes run VMS 5.5-1 and the
alpha runs OpenVMS Alpha AXP 1.0. I have ported an 85,000-line application
to the alpha, using a common source tree resident on the VAX.
Everything seems to work perfectly!

No-one told me that I couldn't tell you, so I did :-)

Steve

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