From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Mar 11 15:12:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146BF37B400 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:12:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2BNCL025403; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:12:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:12:21 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Craig Burgess Cc: alpha Subject: Re: Should I wait for 5-RELEASE for "new" machine coming? Message-ID: <20020312001221.A25375@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from craig@CheetahUSA.net on Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 03:09:46PM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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