From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 5 20:33:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from malkavian.org (malkavian.org [206.136.132.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5189B37B417 for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 20:33:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rbw@localhost) by malkavian.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fA64Wr013015; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 23:32:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rbw@myplace.org) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 21:32:53 -0700 From: "brian j. peterson" To: Warner Losh Cc: Andrew Gallatin , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cool new alpha system Message-ID: <20011105213253.A51546@malkavian.org> Mail-Followup-To: Warner Losh , Andrew Gallatin , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111060025.fA60P7718719@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 05:25:07PM -0700 X-URL: http://rbw.myplace.org/ 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 *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