[plug] AlphaServer 1000 4/266

[Richard Sharpe]

Leon Brooks wrote:
> Simon Scott wrote:
> 
>> Subject: [plug] AlphaServer 1000 4/266
>> Yesterday I managed to obtain an alpha cheaply, and was just
>> wondering if anyone had similar and could tell me
> 
> 
> If it's TurboChannel, there's a chance you can get one of the BSDs to 
> go
> on it. A very few models will run Linux but not the graphics cards (ie 
> serial console only). If it's not TurboChannel then AFAIK it should be 
> happy.

The AlphaServers did not contain TurboChannel. That died with the 
DECserver (Alpha) and DECstation (MIPS) series. Great bus, but non-standard.

Linux should install on the AlphaServer.

> I have a 64MB TurboChannel DEC Alpha. The 64MB is made of 64 (I kid 
> you
> not) funny SIMMs that look like the 168-pin SIMMs but aren't (and 
> don't
> fit). The whole lot is arranged in a streamlined fashion so that the 
> air
> from five (5) large fans arrayed across oen side of the case can blow 
> freely across them.

I have a 96MB DECstation (MIPS) box :-)

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