From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Sep 20 21:43:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5435E37B424 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:43:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA07313 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:43:40 -0700 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:43:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: end of life for DEC branded Alphas (and Tru64) (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:51:02 -0400 (EDT) From: William H. Magill Reply-To: axp-list@redhat.com To: axp-list@redhat.com Subject: end of life for DEC branded Alphas (and Tru64) My understanding is that any EV56 or earlier processor will no longer be supported by Tru64 after 5.1 (and depending on how you read the 5.1 release notes, NOT in 5.1) This implies that there will be a LOT of 1000A's hitting the market in the not too distant future. (There are supposedly "thousands" of them in use by various telcos.) The 1000As are a nice box. Lots of PCI slots. ----------< Forwarded Message Follows >---------- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:24:11 -0400 From: "Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-884-0646" Subject: Tru64 UNIX V5.1 and TruCluster software To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov Rich asked: > Just curious if anyone has the status on whether > 5.1 has been qualified and is shipping yet? Yes, kits are starting to ship. I've received my shipment, and once the internal distribution is complete, they start shipping customer updates. Someone asked about fibre channel arbitrated loop for the TruCluster product, and that's still in testing, so the statement of support for that isn't ready, but otherwise, the TruCluster product is also out and ready to go. By the way, V5.1 is the last release that will support the older "DEC" branded Alpha systems (the ones that do NOT have PCI buses for I/O -- the DEC 2000, DEC 3000, DEC 4000, DEC 7000/10000). We announced in the V5.0A release notes that support would be removed in a future release, and in the V5.1 notes that V5.1 is the last release to support those older systems. Bear in mind that all of these systems ARE supported in the V4.0G release, and that V4.0G is planned to have a long service life. If you are using one of these older systems and have not yet decided to move to V5.x, you might be better off moving to V4.0G than to V5.0 or V5.0A or V5.1. I have also heard reports that Oracle Corporation may be retiring their support for the older CPU models that did not support byte and double-byte (8 bit and 16 bit) operations (LCA, EV4, EV45, EV5). If you are using Oracle software on older systems using those old CPU designs, you may wish to check with Oracle on their intentions for future support. Tom Dr. Thomas P. Blinn + UNIX Software Group + Compaq Computer Corporation 110 Spit Brook Road, MS ZKO3-2/W17 Nashua, New Hampshire 03062-2698 Technology Partnership Engineering Phone: (603) 884-0646 Internet: tpb@zk3.dec.com Compaq's Easynet: alpha::tpb ACM Member: tpblinn@acm.org PC@Home: tom@felines.mv.net Worry kills more people than work because more people worry than work. Keep your stick on the ice. -- Steve Smith ("Red Green") My favorite palindrome is: Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. -- Phil Agre, pagre@alpha.oac.ucla.edu Yesterday it worked / Today it is not working / UNIX is like that -- apologies to Margaret Segall Opinions expressed herein are my own, and do not necessarily represent those of my employer or anyone else, living or dead, real or imagined. -------------< End Forwarded Message >----------- -- www.tru64unix.compaq.com www.tru64.org comp.unix.tru64 T.T.F.N. William H. Magill Senior Systems Administrator Information Services and Computing (ISC) University of Pennsylvania Internet: magill@isc.upenn.edu magill@acm.org http://www.isc-net.upenn.edu/~magill/ _______________________________________________ Axp-list mailing list Axp-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/axp-list To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message