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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:11:23 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Yoriaki FUJIMORI <fujimori@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Does FreeBSD run on UP1100? 
Message-ID:  <14957.58579.658293.639038@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200101231828.DAA29978@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp>
References:  <14957.38711.870552.778956@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200101231828.DAA29978@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp>

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Yoriaki FUJIMORI writes:
 > Dear Drew,
 > Thank you very much for your responce.  I'll try running FreeBSD4.2R
 > on it near future.

Thanks!  I'll be looking forward to hearing from you.

 > To be exact, I am planning to get a skelton system for a Linux/Alpha
 > cluster.  One Alpha vendor in Tokio is promoting a cheap system
 > around Yen200K (about USD1700.)  Its spec is 21264a/600MHz, 2mb cache,
 > 64MB memory, one VGA card and ATAHDD blah...  Any way, the cheapest one
 > I could find on earth.

Much cheaper than anything I can find.  I'm very impressed with the price.

 > I was not interested in UP1100 a while ago, for it can accomodate only
 > upto 768MB memory, and I thought that UP1100 could run only Linux.
 > Recently I started thinking about building an Alpha-based cluster system
 > in my lab.  
 > # PVM3 on FreeBSD/Alpha seems to be buggy, though.

I don't know anything about PVM, but if you can elaborate more on
"buggy", somebody on the mailing list might be able to help you.

Drew



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