Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 08:38:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! My Disks Are GONE... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811070834050.19324-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981106230934.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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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
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