From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 23 16: 2:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1525737B405 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:02:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fAO02cg69185; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:02:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 16:02:38 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Nick Maniscalco Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting back into alpha systems / looking for suggestions Message-ID: <20011123160238.C68993@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <3C2C598F@zathras> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C2C598F@zathras>; from nmanisca@vt.edu on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:34:17PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 09:34:17PM -0500, Nick Maniscalco wrote: > What should I look for? A 164LX? A PWS? 164LX is the finest 21164 in PeeCee'ish form factor. After that it is a toss up between the PC164SX and PWS-MX5. (I've never seen a PWS-GL on eBay). > I want to get at least 512MB memory and > hopefully more, so a system that supports cheap memory would > be a plus. PWS is out then. PC164SX and 164LX's take standard ECC DIMMs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message