Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 21:32:53 -0700 From: "brian j. peterson" <rbw@myplace.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool new alpha system Message-ID: <20011105213253.A51546@malkavian.org> In-Reply-To: <200111060025.fA60P7718719@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:25:07PM -0700 References: <15335.11210.918517.476994@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200111060000.fA600G718588@harmony.village.org> <15335.11210.918517.476994@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200111060025.fA60P7718719@harmony.village.org>
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*sigh* fucking slashdot. i saw the story and had to post a response... http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23410&cid=2525989 this same motherboard was discussed on this list back in April... when i got all excited by the very same page: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=49231+50816+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-alpha/20010422.freebsd-alpha -brian On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:25:07PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > 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 -- --===-----=======-----------=============-----------------=================== rbw aka bjp | and did you exchange a walk on part in the war rbw@myplace.org | for a lead role in a cage? ===================-----------------=============-----------=======-----===-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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