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any virtuialization availible for OSF/1 ?

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Sem

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May 3, 2009, 1:48:18 PM5/3/09
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My old Compaq alpha dinosaur takes half of my server room and i need
to get rid of him , is any virtual platform available for those
systems ?

Kari Uusimäki

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May 3, 2009, 4:36:18 PM5/3/09
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AFAIK the Charon Alpha emulator should run OSF/1 (aka Digital UNIX aka
Tru64unix). I have only tried OpenVMS so far.

See http://www.softresint.com/charon-axp/index.htm


Kari


H Vlems

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May 5, 2009, 4:18:01 AM5/5/09
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Try the Personal Alpha product from them to check wheter Tr64 runs on
it.
Personal Alpha is free for non-commercial use.

Robert Boers

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May 26, 2009, 4:55:14 AM5/26/09
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We recently posted on our website an ES40 emulator (on Linux) for
download. This version is for Educational and non-commercial use only.
It runs TRU64. For download, go to our website www.stromasys.com

Details are under: Downloads > Alpha Virtualization > CHARON-AXP NCE

Regards, Robert.
robert (dot) boers

pos

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Jun 1, 2009, 8:34:26 PM6/1/09
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I have loaded Tru64 5.1 on a Ppersonal Alpha installation.
If you live with the max memory of 128MB on the free version, and the use of
a dedicated network card, it runs quite nicely.

I have it even running on a laptop, which is scary. My dream is a quad core
laptop with 8Gb of memory running:
Windows (base)
T64 emulator
VMware emulator concealing another T64 emulator.

I wouldn't expect Trucluster to work, however!

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Robert Boers

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Jun 7, 2009, 7:17:17 AM6/7/09
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pos wrote:
> I have loaded Tru64 5.1 on a Ppersonal Alpha installation.
> If you live with the max memory of 128MB on the free version, and the use of
> a dedicated network card, it runs quite nicely.
>
> I have it even running on a laptop, which is scary. My dream is a quad core
> laptop with 8Gb of memory running:
> Windows (base)
> T64 emulator
> VMware emulator concealing another T64 emulator.
>
> I wouldn't expect Trucluster to work, however!

You can run the Non-commercial (NCE) ES40 emulator for Linux on a quad
core laptop (we do), using TRU64 5.1. TruCluster works very well via the
laptop Ethernet adapter to an external system.

If you run VMware with two VMs you should be able to run two NCE
instances on that laptop and cluster them together. Not tried though,
will ask one of our engineers.

Regards, Robert Boers

CEO
Stromasys SA
www.stromasys.com

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