From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 4 17:53:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7032337B401 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:53:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8A243EA9 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:53:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0353.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.98] helo=mindspring.com) by grebe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18JlCb-0003bh-00; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:53:21 -0800 Message-ID: <3DEEB142.20FC85FF@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:52:02 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au Cc: Andrew Gallatin , alex , alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UDMA ICRC error reading fsbn 78165297 References: <004601c29b1d$57df3d00$0800000a@pepe> <15854.2270.830291.736048@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20021205105408.O43610-100000@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 "Wilkinson,Alex" wrote: > Why do people always refer to Alpha pws 500au's as "miata" ? > > >Why? Well, alphas are electrinically noisy, and physically cramped. > >The 500au in particular was designed by some sort of sadist who wanted > >things to look pretty and didn't give a damn how things worked on the > >inside. If I had a $1.00 for every drop of blood I ever lost by > >skinning my knuckles inserting or removing drives or pci cards from > >miatas, I'd be rich. It was the project name before it was released. It had to be renamed on release because Mazda would have sued them. I've never been able to find out whether it was named after someone having owned a Mazda Miata, or if it was named that way because it was so cramped inside, like a Mazda Miata. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message