CHARON-AXP 5/600 for Windows

CHARON AXP 5/600 can replace the following AlphaServer systems by providing the exact Alpha hardware interface of the original system inside a non-Alpha computer:

  • AlphaServer   800 5/333, 5/400 and 5/500

  • AlphaServer 1x00 5/300, 5/333, 5/400, 5/500 and 5/533  *)

  • AlphaServer 2x00 5/250, 5/300 and 5/375  *)

  • AlphaServer 4x00 5/300, 5/400, 5/466, 5/533 and 5/600  *)

  • AlphaStation 500, 600

  • Personal Work Station 500 and 600

      *) Currently Single Alpha CPU emulation only

CHARON-AXP 5/600 product features:

  • Alpha 21164 (EV5) CPU virtualization and comparable performance

  • Up to 4 GB of virtual Alpha memory, expandable with 4 GB to 8 GB max.

  • Storage adapter (max 10, allowing max. 1200 storage devices)

  • Virtual Alpha disks (choice from Windows container files, Windows physical disks or raw SCSI disk devices.

  • Tape device support (physical and windows container files)

  • CD-ROM

  • Floppy drive

  • Max. 4 Ethernet ports

  • Serial line controller (8 ports)

  • 2 COM-ports

  • VT type terminal emulator

  • Supports OpenVMS 6.2-1h3 and newer, Tru64 3.1 and newer

  • Clustering supported (NI)

CHARON-AXP requires a CPU host system with multi-core Intel or AMD processor, 3.0 GHz or faster in order to deliver equal or slightly better performance than the original AlphaServer.
Memory requirement: 1.5 GB + the amount of emulated Alpha memory.

Special licensing is available to support concurrent use of multiple CHARON-AXP instances inside 1 host system or in a company network, review the documentation for more details.

Pointers to product documentation (PDF files)

CHARON-AXP 5/600 Software Product Description
CHARON-AXP general description

Pointers to other CHARON-AXP content (web pages)

CHARON-AXP technical summary
CHARON-AXP 4/266 (AlphaServer 400/1000/2000)
CHARON-AXP 6/500 (AlphaServer DS10)