Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:12:21 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Craig Burgess <craig@CheetahUSA.net> Cc: alpha <FreeBSD-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Should I wait for 5-RELEASE for "new" machine coming? Message-ID: <20020312001221.A25375@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <JMEJIDBCLMMNOALABHFFCEHCCPAA.craig@CheetahUSA.net>; from craig@CheetahUSA.net on Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:09:46PM -0800 References: <JMEJIDBCLMMNOALABHFFCEHCCPAA.craig@CheetahUSA.net>
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:09:46PM -0800, Craig Burgess wrote: > So far I have this info: "Model 82-PBF5W-VA. Dual Alpha 21164 64bit > 533Mhz, 4 meg cache each... PBXGB-CA Powerstorm Graphics." (It's > from EBay; I hope I don't regret it.) Sounds like an AS1200 (??). Can you check the picture gallery on http://www.freebsd.org/~wilko/Alpha-gallery/ I think the AS1200 is the 5305. Is it white or blue? > I couldn't find any reference to this model on the Compaq site. If Sounds like a white-box NT-Alpha. No worries, FreeBSD does not care for NT-only and runs on it. Tru64 and VMS won't though. (without hacking that is) > this thing sounds familiar and here are any gotchas I should know > about, please let me know (probably best off-list). I recall > reading an interview (?) in which JH? said that FreeBSD v5 will > have much better SMP support. -current on Alpha 'currently' gives you premature grey hair. Please try -stable, that is pretty good these days. W/ -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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