From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jun 26 8:29:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D54114D76 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 08:29:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id RAA23397; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 17:15:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA98830; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:48:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199906260948.LAA98830@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: DEC Server 530x? In-Reply-To: <14196.12866.714386.831497@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from Andrew Gallatin at "Jun 25, 1999 10: 7:23 pm" To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:48:47 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, port-alpha@netbsd.org X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Andrew Gallatin wrote ... > > Anybody know what the heck an AlphaServer1200 is? Is it a scaled down > rawhide? I ask because a NECX is selling something called the 'Digital > Server 5300' with a 400Mhz 21164 for $800USD. > > According to some of the old DEC info, the 5300 was formerly known as > the 'AlphaServer 1200 for Windows NT.' And according to some linux A, a 'whitebox' Alpha. > documentation I've seen, a 1200 is the 'TINCUP' variation of the > rawhide family. (http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/alpha/rh52-hardware-alpha-3.html) > > Anybody know if > > a) SRM will run on a 5300 It could very well be that it does not. It is from the days DEC tried to seperately price NT and 'real' Alphas. > b) NetBSD will run on a 5300 (or a 1200) as if it were a normal rawhide? > c) the 5300, like the AS1200, can accept a second CPU? I will check this for you with my AXP-guru colleague. Will be monday before I can followup. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message