From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 28 03:04:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA20449 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 03:04:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA20443 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 03:04:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA03577 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:03:48 GMT Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:03:51 +0000 Received: from tees.elsevier.co.uk (tees.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.60]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA02174; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:03:46 GMT Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) id LAA09501; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 11:02:33 GMT To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha Based Machines (Was: Re: IBM 57SLC) References: <199611271949.LAA06089@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> <199611280004.SAA18758@bonkers.taronga.com> From: Paul Richards Date: 28 Nov 1996 11:02:32 +0000 In-Reply-To: peter@taronga.com's message of Wed, 27 Nov 1996 18:04:12 -0600 Message-ID: <5720de8otz.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.30 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > It's got two PCI slots on a daughterboard. One is dedicated to a NCR 53C810 > SCSI host adaptor that's not even used in the default configuration. It's got > on-board ethernet, video, sound, IDE, and floppy, and two PCMCIA slots. > If you really need two PCI devices other than SCSI it shouldn't be too hard > to hack up a new daughterboard, and it should fit into a regular case pretty > easily. It's just so *cute* in that little box, though. How many of us now have Alphas? I bought 2 multia's last month one of which has NT on it and one has Linux. A FreeBSD Alpha port might now have enough bodies around to make a good go of it. The NT box is going to have NetBSD put on it instead soon which might a reasonable porting platform. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155