From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 3 00:54:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21123 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21105 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA13275; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:53:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: John Birrell cc: jbarbee@singular.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: future of slpha port In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jun 1998 10:40:25 +1000." <199806030040.KAA22063@cimlogic.com.au> Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 00:53:58 -0700 Message-ID: <13271.896860438@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Argh, don't say that! It should have been possible to get it in on > demo status. There is probably a special form to fill out. One would have thought that Digital Holland, the shippers, would have been more than familiar with the arcanities of customs procedures and how to declare things in the most advantageous possible manner (anyone as familiar with the byzantine european protocols as the Dutch should have no trouble with the australian ones). Given the number of machines Digital ships to trade shows, I would also be very surprised if the demo angle hadn't been one of the earliest tried. I think it was simply too much for the aussie customs to swallow that a US company would want to loan a machine valued in the six-dollar-digit range to some guy living in the suburbs somewhere. :-) > Where are the other alphas (you have 1)? Are they being used? There were 3 Miatas loaned to David Greeman, Warner Losh and Doug Rabson. I got the PC164 system myself from Aspen systems in Colorado. That's why mine is also the only one currently running NetBSD. :( That said, from what I hear, things are definitely looking up for NetBSD on the Miata in the not-too-distant future. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message