19 Nov
1997
19 Nov
'97
10:54 a.m.
At 01:31 PM 11/17/97 -0500, 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.
For the more recent Alpha systems (basically anything with PCI) you can run
Linux. Also NetBSD supports some of the older Alpha systems (the
3000/300LX) for example.
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