good bye

[Will L Givens]

I have a copy of Win2k Alpha... never ran it but know several who have. If
you would like a copy give me a holler sometime... There's no hack or
anything. IIRC you had to set your system clock to some ungodly future date
then it install... Once installed your rolled it back to the correct
date/time *shrug* will L G

-----Original Message-----
From: axp-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:axp-list-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Dialup Jon Norstog
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 01:04
To: Linux on Alpha processors
Subject: Re: good bye




---------- Original Message -----------
From: Oliver Falk <oliver at linux-kernel.at>
To: Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>, garich at ptd.net
Sent: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:32:10 +0100
Subject: Re: good bye

> Hi Gary!
> 
> Gary Richardson wrote:
> > The Digital Server 5300 was a nice running machine. I bought
> > it new on Ebay after Microsoft decided to can 2000 on alpha.
> 
> There's W2K for alpha?
> 
to the list:

Indeed there was Windows 2000 for Alpha.  It was beta release with a built
in
expiration.  Someone hacked the registry hive so it wouldn't die after 450
days and put it up on a Dutch ftp site (it's gone now).

It is a pretty good OS and incorporates the FX32! utility so it will run
most
32-bit programs directly.  However, a lot of the alpha NT drivers do not
work
easily with it. I have heard, for instance that some one got the NT driver
for
the Powerstorm 350 video card to work under 2000.  I never could.

Windows 2000 is prettier, but NT 4.0 works better for most situations, IMHO.

jn

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