Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:02:56 +0000 From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, jehamby@lightside.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Alpha (was Re: COMDEX trip report) Message-ID: <57d8wuc9sf.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Mark Mayo's message of Sun, 1 Dec 1996 10:35:32 -0500 (EST) References: <Pine.BSF.3.94.961201101157.23827A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com>
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Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> writes: > Just as a side note, check out NekoTek as well (www.alphapower.com). They > tend to be very cheap - a year ago they were even less expensive than > Aspen and Micro Way. I'm not sure if that's the case anymore... That's who I got one of my Multia's from. After importing it to the UK it cost my around 750 quid which seemed pretty cheap to me, even for a discontinued line, certainly cheap enough to buy a couple just to play with a new architecture. > I'm curious, has the "PowerPC Platform" spec been released now?? I know it > has been long awaited since it's suppose to finally open up the PowerPC > clone market, and provide a standard for multiple OS machines... And can > you buy one of these machines yet? > Which to me is the biggest reason I bought some Alphas, Dec are making a lot of their documentation available as pdf on their web site. There's enough info out there to do a port. I even found a book that explained the PAL implementations for OSF, NT and OpenVMS (forget what it's called though). When do we start? I've got a week of free evenings next week (girlfriend's on holiday :-)). -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155
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