Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:53:54 -0700 From: "Mark Holloway" <mholloway@flashmail.com> To: <alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Alpha 500a ok? Message-ID: <000c01bec8ed$1dd8bba0$eb3bea18@lvcm.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi FreeBSD/Alpha people.. I have been using FreeBSD on intel (PII/333/128MB RAM) and it is great.. I was looking at getting another machine to act as a personal server on my home network and maybe eventually into a production environment. For the money, I could spend around $1200 and build a PII/450 machine but a friend of mine who is a used Sun/SGI/DEC/IBM reseller has a DEC Alpha 500a (21164 Generation) Personal Workstation with 128MB Ram, DEC 16MB PCI Video, 4GB SCSI, and CD-Rom for $1400. The thing that I like most about this box is that it has 2MB cache versus Intel's 512k (unless you get a Xeon, but that's a lot more than $1400). Some people have asked me why I'm looking at Alpha and not Intel. Right now I have an Intel/FreeBSD machine at home and it works great. However, I've always looked for the best "bang for the buck" and $1400 is a pretty low price to pay for the Alpha and I feel the components are built better. The SpecINT on the Alpha 500 is still higher than any other used RISC based machine in this price range (Sparc 20, SGI Indy, all with SpecINT around 2.5 -> 4.5). Does anyone know of any issues or quirks with the Alpha 500a machines? Or are they pretty stable? Thanks! Mark [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3401" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>Hi FreeBSD/Alpha people.. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I have been using FreeBSD on intel (PII/333/128MB RAM) and it is great.. I was looking at getting another machine to act as a personal server on my home network and maybe eventually into a production environment. For the money, I could spend around $1200 and build a PII/450 machine but a friend of mine who is a used Sun/SGI/DEC/IBM reseller has a DEC Alpha 500a (21164 Generation) Personal Workstation with 128MB Ram, DEC 16MB PCI Video, 4GB SCSI, and CD-Rom for $1400. The thing that I like most about this box is that it has 2MB cache versus Intel's 512k (unless you get a Xeon, but that's a lot more than $1400). </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Some people have asked me why I'm looking at Alpha and not Intel. Right now I have an Intel/FreeBSD machine at home and it works great. However, I've always looked for the best "bang for the buck" and $1400 is a pretty low price to pay for the Alpha and I feel the components are built better. The SpecINT on the Alpha 500 is still higher than any other used RISC based machine in this price range (Sparc 20, SGI Indy, all with SpecINT around 2.5 -> 4.5). </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Does anyone know of any issues or quirks with the Alpha 500a machines? Or are they pretty stable?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Thanks!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Mark</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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