[H-GEN] Alphas from the DSTC for sale

[Rob Kearey]

On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 08:21:47 +1000 (EST), David Jericho wrote:

[Regarding DEC Alphas for sale, ie]

>SPECint92/SPECfp92:    189.3/264.1
>XMark 93               17.92
>CPU2 MVUPS:            369.1
>CPU:                   DECchip 21064A RISC Microprocessor
>Clock speed:           275 MHz
>On-chip cache:         16 KB of instruction/16 KB of data
>On-board cache:        2 Mbytes
>Max. I/O throughput:   TURBOchannel: 100 Mbytes/sec
>Storage I/O            Fast SCSI-2: 10 Mbytes/sec
>Standard I/O support:  Six TURBOchannel slots (1 used for ZLX-E1 graphics
>                       card), two fast SCSI-2 controllers, Ethernet, ISDN,
>                       sych/asynch with modem control, DEC 423 printer
>                       port, voice-quality audio

Drat! TURBOchannel! According to the Linux/Alpha FAQ, it's extremely 
unlikely that Linux will ever be poted to a TURBOchannel machine. And I'm 
not gonna pay for Digital Unix.

I dunno about FreeBSD though.


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