From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 6 0: 6:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp (grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp [133.9.152.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C7737B416 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 00:06:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp (fujimori@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp (8.11.3/3.7W) with ESMTP id fA686Hm12793 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:06:17 +0900 Message-Id: <200111060806.fA686Hm12793@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: up1500 Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 17:06:17 +0000 From: Yoriaki FUJIMORI 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 Hi folks, I noticed that people are interested in up1500. Here in Japan, a few system vendors have started shipping up1500 based Linux boxes to the market. Their price is, for a minimum configuration, about 800K yen. (120yen=1USD). At the same time, some vendors stopped marketing Alpha-based systems, and they shiftted to P4 based clusters market. I have been talking with one of suppliers, if they can sell just motherboard with cpu. Unfortunately, I have got no reply from them yet. As far as I heard from sales staff, up1500 boards are manufactured on order basis, so that total supply might be limitted, and that it is hard decision for them to continue Alpha because its development is finished in 2004. What comes after AXP? If nothing, ... pity! Yoriaki Fujimori To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message