MICROELECTRONIC SYSTEMS NEWS
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digital equipment corporation dec alpha
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DATE: july 1993
TITLE: Digital Alpha AXP Systems Available on the Internet
Digital Alpha AXP Systems Available on the Internet
As a service to the Internet community, Digital Equipment Corp.
has made two DEC 4000 AXP systems available for evaluating the
Alpha AXP architecture and testing the functionality of the sup-
porting operating systems, compilers, tools, and utilities.
Application developers who have access to the Internet can use
these two systems to test, qualify, or port their software for
the Alpha AXP architecture. Other Internet users interested in
Alpha AXP computing are invited to log on and evaluate these sys-
tems.
In the first two days of availability, initial Internet response
resulted in well over 1000 accounts from about 500 organizations
being set up on these Alpha AXP systems.
One DEC 4000 AXP system (Internet address: axposf.pa.dec.com) is
running the DEC OSF/1 for AXP V1.2 UNIX operating system. The
other AXP system (Internet address: axpvms.pa.dec.com) has the
OpenVMS AXP V1.5 operating system installed. These systems can be
reached either via telnet or rlogin.
To register for an account, Internet users connect to the desired
machine, log in as axpguest (no password), and answer the short
qualifying questionnaire. Users are asked to read all information
in the motd/login banner and comply with all rules for machine
usage/restrictions. Customers with questions about their accounts
should send mail to Internet address: axposf-root@dec.pa.com for
the DEC OSF/1 for AXP system and to Internet address: axpvms-
system@pa.dec.com for the OpenVMS AXP system.
The Internet system -- linking more than 1.7 million host comput-
ers on 11,000 networks in 50 countries -- has more than 5 million
users. The system is tied into most public and private electronic
messaging services, expanding the user population able to ex-
change electronic mail to about 15 million people. The system is
doubling annually in users, networks, hosts, and traffic.
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