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Date:      Fri, 20 Oct 2000 21:48:36 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Mike Eldridge <diz@cafes.net>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alpha 4.x releases (production quality?)
Message-ID:  <20001020214836.A13587@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <14832.40216.99351.889106@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:32:21PM -0400
References:  <14832.37309.17357.558735@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010201400510.31245-100000@mail.cafes.net> <14832.40216.99351.889106@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 03:32:21PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Mike Eldridge writes:
>  > 
>  > I've looked at various used alpha hardware dealers, but as I said before,
>  > I don't know much about alphas.  It seems there are LOADS of different
>  > ones.
>  > 
>  > AlphaStation 200, huh?  Do they have no cache either?  ;)
> 
> They have a 512k cache.  They're not fast, but they're not painfully
> slow either...  They're considerably less buggy than multias.
> 
>  > Any suggestions on a (fairly) cheap alpha?  (keep in mind I'm buying a new
>  > car =P)
>  > 
> 
> An alphastation 200 or 250.  You can generally find them on the
> on-line auction sites for less than $300. 

Just make sure you get enough memory. I myself consider 64Mb to be
the minimum, speed wise. 32Mb will work, but is considerably slower. 

-- 
Wilko Bulte  	 
wilko@freebsd.org 			Arnhem, the Netherlands


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