Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:40:40 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Thomas Sparrevohn <staff@kyklopen.ping.dk> Cc: "Sexton, Robert" <sextonr.crestvie@squared.com>, Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha Based Machines (Was: Re: IBM 57SLC) Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961202223914.7843A-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961203021104.566D-100000@kyklopen>
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On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Sexton, Robert wrote: > > > > > On a subject change.... > > > Are there any _affordable_ alpha motherboards out there yet? > > > I see microway is selling $5000 dollar, 32MB systems. <Ouch!> > > > Economies of scale look a long way off. > > > > There's supposed to be a big educational discount available, if you're at > > a university. > > They do? To departments or to individuals? I can't answer that, and seeing as I've already blown this year's (and next year's) computer budget on x86 stuff, I guess I don't think I'll be investigating that soon. > > Regards Thomas > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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