Everhart,Glenn
From:	hoffman@xdelta.enet.dec.nospam
Sent:	Tuesday, March 31, 1998 2:30 PM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Re: OpenVMS on XL300?

In article <6fou4k$vuv$1@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu>, bdwheele@indiana.edu (Brian Wheeler) writes:
:	I really think that if Digital actually produced low-end VMS boxes,
:people would buy them...

  For fully-assembled hobbyist systems, a used VAXstation 4000 series
  or (less preferably) VAXstation 3100, in conjunction with the DECUS
  OpenVMS VAX hobbyist license, would be a good choice.

  We do have "low-end" systems in the form of some of the Alpha evaluation
  boards, but the software license fees tend to dissuade most hobbyists.
  Please see http://www.digital.com/semiconductor for information on the
  Alpha evaluation boards and single-board computers (SBC), and see the
  OpenVMS Alpha Software Product Description (SPD) for specifically which
  of the boards are supported.

  Also see http://www.digital.com/oem/ for information on Alpha SBCs and
  on Modular Computing Components available to OEMs.

  There has been a long discussion of the potential market for low-end
  OpenVMS boxes that has only recently died down, with a survey conducted
  by one of the folks that regularly posts here.  (But I would rather not
  presume to exhume that equinne -- please visit the newsgroup archives
  at http://www.dejanews.com/ and/or INFO-VAX for the discussion.)

 -------------------------- pure personal opinion ---------------------------
 Hoff (Stephen) Hoffman   OpenVMS Engineering   hoffman@xdelta.ZZenet.dec.com
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