From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 1 12:05:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA28173 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 12:05:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA28168 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 12:05:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id UAA23546 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:04:32 GMT Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:04:25 +0000 Received: from tees.elsevier.co.uk (tees.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.60]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id UAA01622; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:04:09 GMT Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) id UAA10637; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 20:02:57 GMT To: Mark Mayo Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Chuck Robey , jehamby@lightside.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Alpha (was Re: COMDEX trip report) References: From: Paul Richards Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:02:56 +0000 In-Reply-To: Mark Mayo's message of Sun, 1 Dec 1996 10:35:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <57d8wuc9sf.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.30 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark Mayo writes: > Just as a side note, check out NekoTek as well (www.alphapower.com). They > tend to be very cheap - a year ago they were even less expensive than > Aspen and Micro Way. I'm not sure if that's the case anymore... That's who I got one of my Multia's from. After importing it to the UK it cost my around 750 quid which seemed pretty cheap to me, even for a discontinued line, certainly cheap enough to buy a couple just to play with a new architecture. > I'm curious, has the "PowerPC Platform" spec been released now?? I know it > has been long awaited since it's suppose to finally open up the PowerPC > clone market, and provide a standard for multiple OS machines... And can > you buy one of these machines yet? > Which to me is the biggest reason I bought some Alphas, Dec are making a lot of their documentation available as pdf on their web site. There's enough info out there to do a port. I even found a book that explained the PAL implementations for OSF, NT and OpenVMS (forget what it's called though). When do we start? I've got a week of free evenings next week (girlfriend's on holiday :-)). -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155