Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 17:09:07 +1596657 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: aledm@relay-europe.ps.net (Aled Morris) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DEC Alpha Multia Message-ID: <199503241609.RAA00801@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9503241009.B11510-0100000@relay-europe.ps.net> from "Aled Morris" at Mar 24, 95 10:52:42 am
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> Anyone thought about a port of FreeBSD to the DEC Alpha processor? The > new Multia machine seems to offer good value for money hardware (166MHz > 64bit Alpha processor, 24Mb RAM, 340Mb SCSI-2 HDD, PCI bus, and Ethernet > for $3000) >From my experience with AXP machines I'd say that 24Mb is not very much.. Neither is a 340Mb HD.. Note that this experience comes from using DEC OSF/1 which is a neat but fairly(...) big OS. > Perhaps the BSD consortium could fund a development machine if we had a > volunteer to do the port? How do you intend to get low level programming info for the Multia? Is it available ? There are also mainboards for sale (by DEC and others), my guess is that they'd come with more programming info (and are probably cheaper). Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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