From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri May 30 21:00:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA02371 for alpha-outgoing; Fri, 30 May 1997 21:00:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obiwan.psinet.net.au (obiwan.psinet.net.au [203.19.28.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA02349 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 21:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by obiwan.psinet.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA05787; Sat, 31 May 1997 11:41:49 +0800 (WST) Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 11:41:49 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd To: Curt Sampson cc: Adrian Chadd , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Australian people want alphas to play with? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 30 May 1997, Curt Sampson wrote: > The 233 should be noticably faster than the 166, in part due to > having a 512K cache. They can usually be safely overclocked to 266 > MHz as well. > *nod* > These machines should be just fine for developing the Alpha port > on except for the absence of ISA slots and the speed. The 21066 > CPUs have a slow memory bus to begin with (on a good day perhaps > half the speed of a Pentium), and the Multia is worse than most > 21066 machines. Under NetBSD, on a 5400 RPM disk, with 56 MB of > memory, building a fairly large kernel takes about an hour. > > all other details same as th 166.. > > $550 delivered... ^^^--- $A550 :-) Delivery in Australia too, only. > > That sounds like an excellent price for it. (I paid US$1100 for my > 233 MHz Multia.) It's worth checking to see if the drive is a 3.5" > or 2.5", though; the 3.5" drives take up the space that would > otherwise be usable for a PCI expansion card. >From memory they are 3.5" drives so yes you'll need to replace it with a 2.5" drive in order to get to the PCI slot. Anyone? No? Who is in Perth that DOES FreeBSD stuff? :-) Adrian Chadd