From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 18 5:55:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5600A37B4C5 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 05:55:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA25554; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:55:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e9ICtc793106; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:55:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:55:37 -0400 (EDT) To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha XL 300 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14829.40263.552989.381385@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brandon D. Valentine writes: > I am looking to buy an Alpha to run FreeBSD/AXP on. I have the ability > to buy a DEC Alpha XL 300 workstation and it looks like a good deal. > It's got a 300Mhz 21164, 32MB of RAM, a 2.1 GB SCSI HDD and a SCSI CDROM > in it. All for ~$450 USD. What I want to know is, is this as good a > deal as it sounds, and will it run FreeBSD well. I have been unable to It won't run any of the *BSDs at all, because it does not have an SRM console. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message