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- From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: VMS on ALPHA PC's
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:32:15 GMT
- Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
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- References: <1993Jan28.084506.4501@rdg.dec.com>,<1k8locINNb2a@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM>
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- In article <1k8locINNb2a@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM>, dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard) writes:
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- >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.
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