From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 13:22:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210DD37B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:22:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sm11.texas.rr.com (sm11.texas.rr.com [24.93.35.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 231A943E72 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:22:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ww@austin.rr.com) Received: from apricot (cs24243228-109.austin.rr.com [24.243.228.109]) by sm11.texas.rr.com (8.12.1/8.12.0.Beta16) with SMTP id g83KJBUl028468; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:19:11 -0500 From: "William Wallace" To: "Wilko Bulte" , "Charles Sprickman" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: RE: FreeBSD on Alpha problems Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:20:54 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20020903220350.B15001@freebie.xs4all.nl> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I bought my alpha workstation from eBay for $300 early this year. It's a 500Mhz DEC Alpha 221164 w/1MB cache, 256MB of RAM (the old 72 pin EDOs with parity), and some weird Intergraph video card that uses two PCI slots (which I can't get to work with X anyway). I'm kind of disappointed with the performance though. Not that I expected it to be fast by any of today's standards, but ubench gives the CPU a "score" of 11200, whereas my old Celeron 450MHz gets 29550. Does that mean that the Celeron is roughly 3 times faster than the Alpha? In any case, it makes for a really decent mail server for my small network. I can offer my help for testing. However, with my hectic work schedule, I'm likely to "miss deadlines", if there are such things :-) Thanks, - William. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Wilko Bulte Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 3:04 PM To: Charles Sprickman Cc: William Wallace; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Alpha problems On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 03:47:36PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: You don't want this one, that is a Turbochannel Alpha. Please check the Alpha specific docs included on the FreeBSD/alpha distribution. I did write them for a purpose ;-) Wilko > Hi, > > Regarding testers, what's a decent used Alpha box run on Ebay? How does > something like this compare to say a PII-400 or so? > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2050221714 > > I'm pretty unfamiliar with the platform, but new toys are always fun if > they are cheap enough... :) > > Charles > > > No. We would welcome more people helping (for example) test Alpha stuff. > > And active developers for Alpha as well of course. > > > > Wilko > > -- > > | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org > > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > ---end of quoted text--- -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message