From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Jul 24 14:30:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946C237BDE1 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 14:30:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13Gpnv-0008pX-00; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 21:30:27 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA01289; Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:30:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:30:27 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tincup has arrived ... Message-ID: <20000724233027.A1248@freebie.demon.nl> Reply-To: wilko@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from scrappy@hub.org on Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:35:30PM -0300 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:35:30PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > morning all ... Morning? Duh.. ;-) > just got an alpha/tincup today, with redhat/linux installed on it Memory is dim: what is a Tincup again? > haven't looked at it closely enough yet to give specs on it, just its a > dual process, 512meg of RAM, 4x4gig hard drives and an 8meg videa card > (matrox, I believe) ... > > any heads up on this? does this help any for the smp aspects of > freebsd-alpha? AFAIK there are multiple SMP alphas around in the project. AS4100, AS2100 come mind. I think it is more a lack of programming time that keeps alpha/SMP from taking off in the short term. -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message