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Date:      Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:08:58 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd)
Message-ID:  <20021106140858.A12033@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <3DC905DC.E57CF555@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:06:52AM -0800
References:  <108E7D907871D6118B5000306E0189F85759A2@ednex504.dsto.defence.gov.au> <20021105002107.GA48239@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021105083559.B5083@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3DC77F65.727CCDA8@mindspring.com> <20021106080934.GA97235@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021106112120.A11476@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3DC9022E.6535EBBF@mindspring.com> <20021106130002.B11806@freebie.xs4all.nl> <3DC905DC.E57CF555@mindspring.com>

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On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:06:52AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > > Lemme guess... Multia?
> > >
> > > Yes, Multia.
> > >
> > > I guess the answer to this problem can be the same as the answer to
> > 
> > Not what I said, just confirms why you need to have an external CD.
> > 
> > > several other recent problems, and you can declare the hardware
> > > unsupported... not my first choice, of course.
> 
> It's a cheap way to keep my toes in the Alpha camp, without
> committing to buying approximately retail-priced hardware (Fry's
> was advertising a 1.8GHz Pentium box for $499 all last week).  It
> also explains why I haven't personally tried to deal with the 2G
> limit issue, I think, unless you know how to wedge that much into
> the tiny, tiny motherboard?  ;-).  I've had the thing for several

4x128MB is probably max.

> more years than people have officially been working on FreeBSD-Alpha
> (late 90's or so).

Well.. I've had my hands on Alpha prototypes quite a bit too :)

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|   / o / /_  _   				wilko@FreeBSD.org
|/|/ / / /(  (_)  Bulte				Arnhem, the Netherlands

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