Operating System Support
Operating System Support
Summary
This section describes how the DEC 2000 Model 500 AXP system
can support different operating systems.
System
Architecture
The system uses the Digital Equipment Corporation
DECchip 21064™ reduced instruction set computer (RISC)
microprocessor. Based on the Digital™ Alpha AXP™
architecture, it provides all the power of a 64-bit computing
environment. In addition, the Alpha AXP architecture privileged
architecture library code (PALcode) allows the system to use
different operating systems.
Supported
Operating Systems
The following table lists the operating systems supported by the
system:
Operating System
Short Name
Microsoft® Windows NT Advanced Server™
for AXP Systems
Windows NT™
OpenVMS™ AXP Operating System
OpenVMS
DEC OSF/1® AXP Operating System
OSF/1
1–2 System Description