What's your specialty? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Feb 2002

On February 6, Huw Davies wrote:
...
  What is your
opinion of the DS10 Alpha as an entry level
current "production" machine. I was thinking that my
next acquisition might be something more contemporary.
I found an interesting reference to one here:

http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/Resources/Computing/halley.html

... which got me interested.  
 Nice box although I think they are a little overpriced (but this is 
 probably due to the cost of the alpha chip more than anything else). Choice  
  Overpriced for that level of performance?  I disagree.

...
  of at least three operating systems (OpenVMS, Tru64
and Linux). Wouldn't 
 surprise me if one of the BSDs ran too. Inbuilt ethernet and unless I'm 
 mistaken, IDE disks can be used if you want to save a few dollars. 
  You can indeed use IDE disks on a DS10...if you want to trash the I/O
performance of the system.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf