From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 5 16:55:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles536.castles.com [208.214.165.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B9D14DCF for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:55:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09469; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:57:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912060057.QAA09469@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 05 Dec 1999 10:19:20 PST." <199912051819.KAA08217@mass.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 16:57:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Nope, but I can't speak for their choices or business model. Do they have > > a machine that is an absolute *must have* for *BSD? > > The UP1000 and UP2000 motherboards are single and dual EV6 Tsunami > boards. Sorry. In light of the accuracy of the information I have to hand from API, that should have been "I'm told that the...". 8( It sounds like the UP1000 may be based on the AMD 751 chipset. I'm not too impressed with these in the K7 application yet (they seem to have overheating problems), so it will be interesting to see how they go with the Alpha. If that's the part they're using, there'll be almost no work involved in making the UP1000 work. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message