From owner-freebsd-platforms Tue Jul 25 09:16:16 1995 Return-Path: platforms-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA01276 for platforms-outgoing; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 09:16:16 -0700 Received: from prinny.pavilion.co.uk (prinny.pavilion.co.uk [193.131.160.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA01259 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 09:16:10 -0700 Received: from line0c.gunn-du.pavilion.co.uk (line08.gunn-du.pavilion.co.uk [193.131.160.105]) by prinny.pavilion.co.uk (8.6.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id RAA16714 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 17:21:30 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 17:21:30 +0100 Message-Id: <199507251621.RAA16714@prinny.pavilion.co.uk> X-Sender: aledm@mailhost.pavilion.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org From: aledm@pavilion.co.uk (Aled Morris) Subject: Re: What Platform? X-Mailer: Sender: platforms-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 11:38 AM 25/7/95, Chuck Robey wrote: >> DEC are almost giving away Alpha systems, and they do have a mean >> CPU. Will they survive? > >That they are. Academic prices are (I understand) about 3500 for a >system with monitor, drive and network. That's actually within shooting >range for a single individual, albeit a somewhat warped one. Much less than that for a Multia. I asked this question before, but was told there is a MMU problem with the Multia that prevents it from working with Unix's virtual memory system. I was told at the time that DEC offers development systems (motherboards) for < US$1000(?) which you could swap into a PC chassis and use standard PCI peripherals, SCSI disks etc. Anyone with exact details? Aled -- telephone +44 973 207987