From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 20 12:46:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C5037B4CF for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13mi7Q-000FPf-00; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:46:21 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9KJmai13601; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 21:48:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 21:48:36 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Mike Eldridge , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha 4.x releases (production quality?) Message-ID: <20001020214836.A13587@freebie.demon.nl> References: <14832.37309.17357.558735@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <14832.40216.99351.889106@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <14832.40216.99351.889106@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:32:21PM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:32:21PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Mike Eldridge writes: > > > > 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? ;) > > They have a 512k cache. They're not fast, but they're not painfully > slow either... They're considerably less buggy than multias. > > > Any suggestions on a (fairly) cheap alpha? (keep in mind I'm buying a new > > car =P) > > > > An alphastation 200 or 250. You can generally find them on the > on-line auction sites for less than $300. Just make sure you get enough memory. I myself consider 64Mb to be the minimum, speed wise. 32Mb will work, but is considerably slower. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message