From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Mar 4 11:40: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D859337B86C for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 11:40:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id UAA32053; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 20:32:41 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA62406; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 20:04:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 20:04:48 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Hellmuth Michaelis Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Celebris XL300 running FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20000304200448.A62387@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <20000304141742.A60EA36AB@hcswork.hcs.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000304141742.A60EA36AB@hcswork.hcs.de>; from hm@hcs.de on Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 03:17:42PM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 03:17:42PM +0100, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > i've got an offer to buy an DEC Alpha XL300 Celebris machine which ran > NT previously. Is this something i can run FreeBSD (-current) on ? No. AlphaXL only has ARC firmware available, not the SRM console f/w that *BSD needs to run. Linux *might* run on them, using the ARC console. In general: now that WinNT/alpha has died you will see a lot of used XLs on the market. They are worth $0.00 if you try to trade them in for something new so most companies try to find other ways to get rid of them (sell them to employees, whatever). I was offered a bunch of them this week too.. W/ -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands http://www.tcja.nl The FreeBSD Project: http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message