Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:06:17 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: "Craig Burgess" <craig@CheetahUSA.net> Cc: "alpha" <FreeBSD-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Should I wait for 5-RELEASE for "new" machine coming? Message-ID: <15502.6505.850759.40163@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <JMEJIDBCLMMNOALABHFFCEHCCPAA.craig@CheetahUSA.net> References: <JMEJIDBCLMMNOALABHFFCEHCCPAA.craig@CheetahUSA.net>
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Craig Burgess writes: > So far I have this info: "Model 82-PBF5W-VA. Dual Alpha 21164 64bit > 533Mhz, 4 meg cache each... PBXGB-CA Powerstorm Graphics." (It's > from EBay; I hope I don't regret it.) > > I couldn't find any reference to this model on the Compaq site. If > this thing sounds familiar and there are any gotchas I should know > about, please let me know (probably best off-list). I recall > reading an interview (?) in which JH? said that FreeBSD v5 will > have much better SMP support. There is no SMP support in -stable for alphas, so v5 certainly has better support ;) Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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