Thanks for quick and helpful responses from John Venier, Cindi Smith, Larry
Clegg, Benjamin, Calvin Coghlan, Joe LaCascio, David DeWolfe, Robert Mulley,
daiken_at_regents.edu and Joe Comunale,
who politely reminded me that "If you read the Info page you got when you
subscribed to this list, you would have seen the url."
Searchable archives are at:
http://www-archive.ornl.gov:8000/archive/power.htm
Archives by date (not searchable) are at:
http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/
And, yes, the 4100 can and does handle 4 CPUs and 4MB RAM.
As for the 4.0g release, about half pronounced it good, some said go with
4.0h and a few said wait for 5.1, (which is not yet 'certified' by Oracle.
As I have the 4.0G sitting unopened on the shelf, I will go with it.
Thanks again!
Original message:
> We will receive a "new" (to us) DEC Alpha 4100 5/600 server
> next week with
> four of the 5/600 CPU KN306-AB boards, 4GB RAM MS332-GA and 12 18.2GB
> DS-RZ1ED-VW drives, and it is proposed that we install Tru64
> 4.0g to meet
> some Oracle 8i/11i certification minimums.
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1) Is Tru64 release 4.0g a proven, stable, desirable release?
> (We run 4.0d
> on our current 4100 server and find it adequate.)
>
> 2) Can one really run four CPUs on the 4100? I thought it was
> limited to
> only two.
>
> Oh, a third question if you don't mind: Where can one browse
> the archives
> for this group?
>
> Darryl Milczarek
> EMS 602 258-8545
> darryl.milczarek_at_emsusa.com
>
Received on Tue Sep 19 2000 - 16:37:26 NZST