From: Hans Vlems [hvlems@iae.nl]
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 2:20 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: up2000 + up1000


"peter.watkinson1@ ntlworld.com (Peter Watkinson)" <nospam> schreef in
bericht news:3e74b6d0.22614328@news.cable.ntlworld.com...
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 17:23:17 GMT,
> peter.watkinson1@<nospam>ntlworld.com (Peter Watkinson) wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >Hi there,
> >
> >Does Open VMS or Tru64 unix run on the UP2000 or UP1000 motherboards
> >or were they NT/Linux boards only?
> >
> >They appear on ebay and they are somewhat cheaper than the equivalent
> >Compaq systems i.e DS20, DS20e DS10.
> >
> >I believe Open VMS runs on the 264DP motherboard but these are rarer.
> >
> >There is another board a UP2000+ not too sure about that one.
> >
> >Thanks for any info.
> >
> >cheers,
> >
> >
>
> found this answer on hp.com
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> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/wiz_3360.html
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> Peter Watkinson
> peter.watkinson1<nospam>@ntlworld.com
> remove <nospam> to reply :-)

Peter

do not despair. The so called white box Alpha's were sold as NT only systems
and did not support VMS either. With a few modest software changes (add two
lines to a file called nvram) and modifying one boot parameter I found that
a Digital Server 3000 as well as a Digital Server 5000 model 5305 will run
VMS quite nicely.

Hans