Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 19:25:34 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha XL 300 Message-ID: <20001018192534.C1832@freebie.demon.nl> 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 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010180021200.1646-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <14829.40263.552989.381385@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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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
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