From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jun 9 17:15:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.az.home.com (ha1.rdc1.az.home.com [24.1.240.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016E537B847 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:15:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpmcgraw1@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.1.247.6]) by mail.rdc1.az.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000610001516.ZIHJ11091.mail.rdc1.az.home.com@home.com> for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:15:16 -0700 Message-ID: <3942D275.48165F30@home.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 16:42:45 -0700 From: Joel Mc Graw Organization: The Hood X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Alpha wannabe newbie--what hardware? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I'm a PC-bound FreeBSD lover that wants to get an alpha to play with. According to the description on FreeBSD mall: FreeBSD/AXP supports the following alpha platforms: UDB, Multia, AXPpci33, Noname EB164, PC164, PC164LX, PC164SX EB64+, Aspen Alpine, etc AlphaStation 200, 250, 255, 400 AlphaStation 500, 600 Digital Personal Workstation 433, 500, 600 Compaq Professional Workstation XP900, XP1000, AlphaServer DS10 DEC3000/300 family (netboot only) DEC3000/[4-9]00 family (netboot only) On ebay I've seen several machines billing themselves as Alpha 500a workstations. Is there a difference between these and the Personal Workstation 500 listed above? What other issues should I be aware of? Suggestions? Is there some really good documentation somewhere? Thankyou -- Joel Mc Graw "Where there is faith there is no peace." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message