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FILENUMBER: 3012 BEGIN_KEYWORDS digital equipment corporation dec alpha END_KEYWORDS 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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