22 Mar
2000
22 Mar
'00
3 a.m.
--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> wrote:
Good Grief! The most any Alpha on my home cluster has
is 112MB and my best
Alpha only has 96MB because the RAM is so blasted expensive! I've found
that a Alpha with 80MB is about the same as a VAX with 16MB, and don't even
consider DECwindows in less than 80MB (and you won't see good performance
till 112MB).
Ow... that's scary. I am in the process of _finally_ building up this AXP133
"no-name" board I bought a few years ago. Currently, it has 64Mb because
parity
16Mb SIMMs are stunningly expensive. I lucked out at the Dayton Computerfest
a couple of weeks ago and cleaned a vendor out at $15 per stick. Now my Alpha
has 64Mb, my LX will have 64Mb and even my main SPARC-IPX. It's been a
memorable experience. ;-)
The Alpha has on it an older version of NetBSD. I'm considering upping it
to the latest rev or going to RedHat. At the moment, I can't seem to get
the 3C509 working, but I'd rather use something a little more advanced like
a Tulip-based 10/100 NIC or even a 3C905C (since we have them around the
office).
One other piece of fun with this "no-name" board was locating compatible
cache RAM. I stripped several 486s before I found a set of chips that
would let the Alpha come up. The manual mentions a list of preferred
vendors. Believe it.
-ethan
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