17 Nov
1997
17 Nov
'97
7:13 a.m.
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Allison J Parent wrote:
<Speaking of Alpha's, is there any chance that
I can put my own together? A
<agree... it's just plain stupid, and I hate Intel anyway... kind of like in
Sure, you can buy them used for prices that aren't all that expensive
compared to late model 486 or early p5s. The older ones are now some 4-5
years old. The OS for it will cost you. You have three choices that I
know of, OpenVMS (my favorite), Digital Unix, or NT. I don't know that
anyone has done a UNIX port outside of digital.
Nope! There's Linux/Alpha. DEC gave Linus Torvalds an AV5 just to do the
port.