From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Nov 7 00:39:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA09544 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 00:39:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09538 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 00:39:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA04071; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 08:38:41 GMT Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 08:38:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Simon Shapiro cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! My Disks Are GONE... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > Doug Rabson, On 06-Nov-98 you wrote: > > ... > > > I have a 433au and a 164lx and they have both been excellent workhorses > > so > > far. My 164lx doesn't have the ncr/de combo card though so I have no > > experience with that. > > There was no implication of criticism in my previous posting on the > subject. Hardware does go bad. The less PC-like a platform is the more I > like it. Understood. I just wanted to add a positive datapoint for the thing :-) > > I do find the SRM monitor to follow the great DEC tradition; Obscure > excellence. SRM does have its positive aspects. I think AlphaBIOS will be more familiar for most people coming from the PC world though. Booting from AlphaBIOS is likely to be my next project after getting the Xserver going. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message