Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 11:41:49 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au> To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Australian people want alphas to play with? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970531113742.5763A-100000@obiwan.psinet.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.970530074950.13711D-100000@gnostic.cynic.net>
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On Fri, 30 May 1997, Curt Sampson wrote: > The 233 should be noticably faster than the 166, in part due to > having a 512K cache. They can usually be safely overclocked to 266 > MHz as well. > *nod* > These machines should be just fine for developing the Alpha port > on except for the absence of ISA slots and the speed. The 21066 > CPUs have a slow memory bus to begin with (on a good day perhaps > half the speed of a Pentium), and the Multia is worse than most > 21066 machines. Under NetBSD, on a 5400 RPM disk, with 56 MB of > memory, building a fairly large kernel takes about an hour. > > all other details same as th 166.. > > $550 delivered... ^^^--- $A550 :-) Delivery in Australia too, only. > > That sounds like an excellent price for it. (I paid US$1100 for my > 233 MHz Multia.) It's worth checking to see if the drive is a 3.5" > or 2.5", though; the 3.5" drives take up the space that would > otherwise be usable for a PCI expansion card. >From memory they are 3.5" drives so yes you'll need to replace it with a 2.5" drive in order to get to the PCI slot. Anyone? No? Who is in Perth that DOES FreeBSD stuff? :-) Adrian Chadd <adrian@psinet.net.au>
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