From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 20 12: 9:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cafes.net (mail.cafes.net [207.65.182.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD7237B4C5 for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:09:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cafes.net (mail.cafes.net [207.65.182.25]) by mail.cafes.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA31569; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:09:26 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:09:26 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Eldridge To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha 4.x releases (production quality?) In-Reply-To: <14832.37309.17357.558735@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Mike Eldridge writes: > > Any insight, suggestions, and/or advice would be appreciated. > > If your time is worth anything to you at all, recycle the multia and > and get yourself a decent quality alpha. Even a used AlphaStation 200 > would be much better. > > Drew I want something with a 21264 =P My time with this alpha isn't really worth anything. It was here, nobody was using it, so it became mine. :) I might consider purchasing a low-end alpha for my home, just to have and tinker with. I was also considering purchasing an old UltraSPARC, but alphas are 10 times cooler ;) I've looked at various used alpha hardware dealers, but as I said before, I don't know much about alphas. It seems there are LOADS of different ones. AlphaStation 200, huh? Do they have no cache either? ;) Any suggestions on a (fairly) cheap alpha? (keep in mind I'm buying a new car =P) Mike ----------------------------------------------------- Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message