Tru64

[mikeshn]

As I understand Tru64 is OS from Unix/Linux family. Does someone use the Operating System? Good as the server?
Thanks a lot

 

[n0cmonkey]

It is a UNIX-like OS made for the ALPHA architecture. I think this is like the 4th name its gone by, but Compaq has some information about it on their site.

 

[Sunner]

On a sidenote, Alpha is basically a walking carcass.

Compaq has sold off their Alpha division to Intel, but they'll keep supporting Alpha until 2007 at least, and they'll release the next generation Alpha as well, the EV7.
But hardly an architecture to build something new on.

 

[Nothinman]

We run a lot of Oracle databases on Tru64, it's one of the lesser known unixes but the Alpha architecture kicks ass. The licensing for it was my biggest complaint, can't even telnet into it without licenses.

IMHO Alphas are much better than IA64, but once again we witness a large corporation dumping the better technology for the marketing and software with name recognition.

 

[Sunner]

<< but the Alpha architecture kicks ass >>


Agreed, The company Digital kicked ass as well.
Excellent support, excellent products.

Too bad their marketshare was never quite as stellar.

 

[thornc]

Yap, alpha are the best...
We have a few alpha servers, stations available here in the lab and they kick
ass against any pentiums III, athlons.... Well they did, now with 1Ghz processors
alpha are getting slow, but they still do the job well.

And alpha+tru64 (osf, digital unix..) is a very good platform, untill recently this was
the backbone of the university's dns and mail servers...