From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Mar 12 7:19: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C7637C2EF for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:07:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01864; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:06:47 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g2CF6Hf02766; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:06:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15502.6505.850759.40163@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:06:17 -0500 (EST) To: "Craig Burgess" Cc: "alpha" Subject: Re: Should I wait for 5-RELEASE for "new" machine coming? In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid 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 Craig Burgess writes: > 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.) > > I couldn't find any reference to this model on the Compaq site. If > this thing sounds familiar and there 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. There is no SMP support in -stable for alphas, so v5 certainly has better support ;) Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message