From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jun 10 2:22:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96FA537B723 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 02:22:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 2ee4e7c625482f2f2a1950a80f6c8d58) with ESMTP id <20000610092150.QWAI17505.relay02@chello.nl>; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 11:21:50 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA33976; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 11:22:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 11:22:03 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Joel Mc Graw Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha wannabe newbie--what hardware? Message-ID: <20000610112203.A33942@freebie.wbnet> Reply-To: wc.bulte@chello.nl References: <3942D275.48165F30@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3942D275.48165F30@home.com>; from jpmcgraw1@home.com on Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 04:42:45PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 04:42:45PM -0700, 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? PWS###a is the NT variant, the PWS### is the Unix/VMS variant. See: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.0-RELEASE/HARDWARE.TXT for more info -- Wilko Bulte FreeBSD, the power to serve http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message