From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 18 11:28:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85B2B37B4CF for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:28:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13lxcZ-000MQw-00; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 18:07:23 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9IHPY403679; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:25:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:25:34 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha XL 300 Message-ID: <20001018192534.C1832@freebie.demon.nl> References: <14829.40263.552989.381385@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <14829.40263.552989.381385@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 08:55:37AM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 08:55:37AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Brandon D. Valentine writes: > > I am looking to buy an Alpha to run FreeBSD/AXP on. I have the ability > > to buy a DEC Alpha XL 300 workstation and it looks like a good deal. > > It's got a 300Mhz 21164, 32MB of RAM, a 2.1 GB SCSI HDD and a SCSI CDROM > > in it. All for ~$450 USD. What I want to know is, is this as good a > > deal as it sounds, and will it run FreeBSD well. I have been unable to > > It won't run any of the *BSDs at all, because it does not have an SRM > console. And before someone asks: there won't be any SRM either. $450 is a stiff price to pay for what is essentially a dead-end NT-only (OK, it can run Linux IIRC) box. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message