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- From: muswick@vs2.uh.cwru.edu (Gary James Muswick)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.alpha,comp.sys.dec
- Subject: VMS on ALPHA PC's
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:35:06 GMT
- Organization: Image Analysis Center, Univ. Hospitals of Cleveland
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- Sender: muswick@v32.uh.cwru.edu (Gary James Muswick)
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- Keywords: Alpha PC, VMS
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-
- I just talked with my sales rep. and was informed that two new Alpha PCs will
- not have VMS on them at anytime. I had read about 6-9 months ago in DR that
- VMS would be available shortly after the introduction of the PC's when VMS was
- ported to the EISA bus. Now the report is for no plans to write EISA drivers
- for VMS or a x-window server for the video. On top of this, microsoft has
- again slipped the into date for NT till at least March and from some inside
- info, NT won't be ready till June! My DEC rep says the pc boxes are waiting
- to ship, they just need NT. --- All of this has me bummed.
-
- I currently own a lowly XT converted to a 286, cga etc. The reason I have
- never bought a better pc is that I have a cluster of 12 vaxes, one of which
- is a 4000-90. I do a lot of VMS/X-Windows work. It has seemed stupid to
- spend alot of money on a home system when I have so power at work. But now
- an Alpha PC when first announced 9 months ago, that I could do some
- development work at home and on weekends would be an answer to my problems.
- I could use EVE, VMS-C, Motif, and DECWrite just as I do at work. same files
- etc. And SoftPC would give me DOS if I needed it. (NT on the Alpha-PC also
- has to Soft-PC or something like it to run DOS aps.)
-
- I think DEC is missing market share waiting for NT. Get the boxes out running
- VMS and SoftPC now. I know I want one, my desk at home has an open spot that
- would fit one real nicely.
-
- I know that DEC may come out with a low cost workstation that I could use,
- but I want to have a powerful PC platform too.
-
- I hope this makes it to some decision makers at DEC to rethink the PC policy
- and VMS. If I, being a research engineer in a University that's wants to do
- VMS development at home and willing to cough up 4-5k for the box and 2k for
- misc licenses, then there are probaly lots of other developers, 3rd party
- software, etc. that would want to do the same. They'd either cough up the
- money or their employers/clients would. Real VMS at home is a time that has
- come.
-
- Gary Muswick
- Image Processing Engineer/Supr.
- muswick@vs2.uh.cwru.edu
- (216) 844-7793
-