Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:26:47 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Cc: terry@lambert.org, sextonr.crestvie@squared.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha Based Machines (Was: Re: IBM 57SLC) Message-ID: <199611272126.WAA02193@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199611271949.LAA06089@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Nov 27, 96 11:49:18 am
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As Jason Thorpe wrote... > > On Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:37:47 -0700 (MST) > Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: > > > You can buy DEC Multia's quite cheap... only problem is that they > > are not being made any more, so getting replacements might become > > hard. > > ....and the 166MHz verions aren't all that fast, either :-) > > (But, it is slightly faster than the 133MHz 21064 in my lab... :-) They sold a bunch of 'm last weekend on the largest Dutch computer fair. They were Dfl 750 ( 1$ ~= 1.75 Dfl) for 133 Mc machines. 233 Mcs were about 1000 Dfl more expensive. Another problem with the Multia is it's single PCI slot. And the case is quite/very cramped. Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl - Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Do, or do not. There is no 'try' - Yoda --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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