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- From: billb@crpmks.uucp (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
- Subject: Re: Plans for mixed Alpha/VAX cluster with common system disk?
- Reply-To: billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
- Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:30:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.143024.19179@crpmks.uucp>
- References: <1992Nov14.080016.1283@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Nov14.080016.1283@news.arc.nasa.gov> adelman@tgv.com (Kenneth Adelman) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov13.100832.3777@dxcern.cern.ch>, julian@vscn08.cern.ch (Julian James Bunn) writes:
- >>
- >> What worries me more about a mixed architecture VAX/Alpha VMS Cluster is
- >> how the poor innocent users are going to sort out the confusion between
- >> VAX and Alpha executables.
- >
- > David Kashtan had an interesting solution to this problem. Create
- >a format for images that allows you to "store" both a VAX and an Alpha
- >image in the same executable. Then you just need an APPEND/IMAGE
- >command or somesuch to create these "duel-architecture" executables.
- >
- > Ken
-
- Sounds like agreat idea. In the mean time, I have heard that they will
- require 2 system disks in a mixed "cup" environment.
-
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