From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 2 19:40:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA04658 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 19:40:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA04650 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 19:40:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.24]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA16367; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:40:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA07761; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:40:40 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: skipper.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:40:40 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: Thomas Sparrevohn cc: "Sexton, Robert" , Jason Thorpe , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha Based Machines (Was: Re: IBM 57SLC) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. > > > 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! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------