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Date:      Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:26:47 +0100 (MET)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, sextonr.crestvie@squared.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alpha Based Machines (Was: Re: IBM 57SLC)
Message-ID:  <199611272126.WAA02193@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199611271949.LAA06089@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from "Jason Thorpe" at Nov 27, 96 11:49:18 am

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As Jason Thorpe wrote...
> 
> On Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:37:47 -0700 (MST) 
>  Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
> 
>  > You can buy DEC Multia's quite cheap... only problem is that they
>  > are not being made any more, so getting replacements might become
>  > hard.
> 
> ....and the 166MHz verions aren't all that fast, either :-)
> 
> (But, it is slightly faster than the 133MHz 21064 in my lab... :-)

They sold a bunch of 'm last weekend on the largest Dutch computer fair.
They were Dfl 750 ( 1$ ~= 1.75 Dfl) for 133 Mc machines. 233 Mcs were
about 1000 Dfl more expensive.

Another problem with the Multia is it's single PCI slot. And the case
is quite/very cramped.

Wilko
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