From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jun 9 17:19:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FF2337B70D for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:19:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA23888; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:19:11 -0700 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:18:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Joel Mc Graw Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha wannabe newbie--what hardware? In-Reply-To: <3942D275.48165F30@home.com> 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 AlphaServer 8200 (TurboLaser) and AlphaServer 4100 (Rawhide) have been added recently. On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Joel Mc Graw wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message