From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 5 16:25:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13C637B405 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 16:25:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fA60P9a02364; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:25:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA60P7718719; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:25:07 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200111060025.fA60P7718719@harmony.village.org> To: Andrew Gallatin Subject: Re: Cool new alpha system Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Nov 2001 19:16:10 EST." <15335.11210.918517.476994@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <15335.11210.918517.476994@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200111060000.fA600G718588@harmony.village.org> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 17:25:07 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <15335.11210.918517.476994@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Andrew Gallatin writes: : : Warner Losh writes: : > : > http://samsungelectronics.com/semiconductors/alpha_cpu/up1500/up1500.htm : > : > Looks way cool and that the reports of Alpha demise was premature. : : This page has been around since way before alpha was stabbed in the : back by Compaq. When my wife was looking for an alpha (in June) we : could see this web page, but couldn't buy the motherboard anywhere. : She finally got a dual-cpu Athlon. : : These systems might really exist now; they have been up on the : specials page at Hard Data (http://www.harddata.com/specials.html). : : If anybody actually has one, I'd be interested in hearing how fast it : is. I just noticed that this was listed on slashdot.... I'm sorry to say that I've not done any checking. However, it looks like there are a couple of places that claim to be selling it: http://www.microway.com/products/clusters/alpha.html Wanrer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message