From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Mar 12 13:33:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ACAA14CD4 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:33:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA36136; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 21:34:28 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 21:34:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: William Woods Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990311122853.0079ed90@mail.cybcon.com> 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 Thu, 11 Mar 1999, William Woods wrote: > I am looking into purchasing a DEC Alpha to run FreeBSd on. I understand > the Alpha port is fairly mature and fairly stable. This would not be a > production machiene, but a learning machiene. My question pertains to the > system itself.... > > Are there any kind of reccomendations that people would have regarding the > type of Alpha I should look into...also, where would a good place to find > used alphas at reasonable prices be? > > Thanks, I don't know where you would go about finding reasonably priced used alphas but as far as supported platforms go, we can run on most non-AlphaServer platforms (but not the latest 21264 based systems). Systems based on the Samsung UX motherboard are not supported. I have a Personal Workstation 433au and a 533Mhz 164LX based machine here and they are both decent systems. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message