Hi,
While this is not quite "managers" related I ask here anyway because
I think that it might be of general interest:
For a scientific cooperation our partner needs a fast number cruncher.
Naturally I'm thinking of an Alpha here. The problem is, they need
neither a workstation, nor a server. The Alpha should only be used
as a number cruncher.
The obvious idea is to buy a PC164LX board / 600MHz with a Digital Unix
single user license, stuff in memory and a cheap 2GB harddisk and we're
ready. They don't even need a graphics board. A serial console will do as
well.
Now the problem is: As an ex-government institution, our cooperation
partner needs to buy something which is OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED by Digital
and which they can take under their Enterprise wide support contract.
So my questions:
- can a PC164LX based machine be bought from Digital anyway and can
it be taken into a support contract then?
- can a PC164LX based machine be bought from a reseller and then be taken
under a Digital support contract?
- What is the equivalent original Digital Machine to the PC164LX with
a 600MHz CPU? Can it be bought stripped down like this (without
graphics board and only a small harddisk)?
Thanks and I'll summarize of course.
Tom
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