From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 25 10:38:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from portal.shawinc.com (portal.shawinc.com [12.6.131.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D0DD14DDB for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:38:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Eric_Keyes@shawinc.com) Received: from portal.shawinc.com (root@localhost) by portal.shawinc.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA20726 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:37:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from aquarius.shawinc.com (aquarius.shawinc.com [172.31.249.236]) by portal.shawinc.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA20719 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:37:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by aquarius.shawinc.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.1 (569.2 2-6-1998)) id 8525673F.0066ABFD ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:41:27 -0500 X-Lotus-FromDomain: SHAW From: "Eric Keyes" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <8525673F.0066005D.00@aquarius.shawinc.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:37:20 -0500 Subject: Hardware support for Alpha system Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a DEC AlphaPCI 164 motherboard with a 21164a 500mhz Alpha processor. I also have an Adaptec 2940uw SCSI card, Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card, and a Matrox Millenium II video board. Is this hardware supported? Also, is the Alpha port of FreeBSD fully 64-bit on this platform? What are the pros and cons of using FreeBSD compared to Linux on this platform? Thanks, Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message