Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 03:43:13 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Ada T Lim <ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org> Cc: jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD --- ALPHA Message-ID: <22390.871468993@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:41:56 %2B1000." <199708130841.SAA13894@polya.blah.org>
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Naw, it's probably just a standard alpha motherboard and CPU with the SRM console instead of the ARC console code. That's another IBU within DEC and they have their own little surcharges for using SRM which get passed on to the consumer. Jordan > > > > I was looking at alpha motherboards / systems tonight when I noted that > > there are actually two different versions of the 500MHz 21164, an NT > > (&linux) version and a UNIX (DEC UNIX). Apparently the UNIX version is > > different and more expensive but will run NT also (the reverse is not > > true). So what processor will freebsd-alpha run on, and Is the UNIX > > version actually better or what? > > I believe this is a DEC marketing ploy - Digital Unix may test for the > different processor and fail on the cheap one, simply so they can subsidise > the cost of Digital Unix without making it look _too_ expensive. > > Ada
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