Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:22:41 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha XL 300 Message-ID: <20001019082241.A6172@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010182016001.10190-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>; from bandix@looksharp.net on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 08:26:20PM -0400 References: <20001018192534.C1832@freebie.demon.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010182016001.10190-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 08:26:20PM -0400, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > >On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 08:55:37AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > >> > >> Brandon D. Valentine writes: > >> > I am looking to buy an Alpha to run FreeBSD/AXP on. I have the ability > >> > to buy a DEC Alpha XL 300 workstation and it looks like a good deal. > >> > It's got a 300Mhz 21164, 32MB of RAM, a 2.1 GB SCSI HDD and a SCSI CDROM > >> > in it. All for ~$450 USD. What I want to know is, is this as good a > >> > deal as it sounds, and will it run FreeBSD well. I have been unable to > >> > >> It won't run any of the *BSDs at all, because it does not have an SRM > >> console. > > > >And before someone asks: there won't be any SRM either. $450 is a stiff > >price to pay for what is essentially a dead-end NT-only (OK, it can run > >Linux IIRC) box. > > Yeah, I finally found some info on that last night. It's disappointing. > Anyone want to recommend some reasonably priced Alpha dealers online, > closeout and refurbished preferable to top-of-the-line, brand new. If > so, please email me off list, no sense discussing it further here. > > If I understand the way Linux manages to run on these machines correctly > is it has a miniloader which swaps the PALcode out before booting the > OS. Is there a specific reason this approach has not been pursued by > the BSDs? I'd imagine it would be dependent on the ability to swap in a Read the alpha mailing list archives at [net,freebsd].org. This issue has been discussed numerous times. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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