[geeks] Alpha check

[Ken Hansen]

I had one of these - the *real* catch is the size - this is a *full* AT board, not a smaller AT (mini, baby, whatever). Also, a beefy PS is in order (275 or 300 watts would be my choice, but only because you might add a bunch of HDs).

I installed my board in a full-height tower case, but didn't keep it long. Peformance will not be profundly better than a P/75, IMHO, for general use.

I've got three Alphas in my basement, with the backup/clock/nvram battery slowly draining... I have 2x multias (one SCSI cage internal, the other PCI frame internal), both 166 MHz machines,and a DEC ALpha 200/166 (IIRC) tricked out with 256M RAM, a 4 Gig HD & CD-ROM, and a matrox video card (as well as some massive video card that was supposed to be wonderful, but I never installed it). Never really used any of them for anything meaningful, probably couldn't get much for them if I went to sell them... I guess the Multias are good for *small* web servers - anyone have any exp. running Apache/MySQL/PHP on a 166 MHz Multia or 200/166? I could use a small intranet server and those are my development tools of choice...

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Boyd [mailto:jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 9:39 PM
To: 'geeks at sunhelp.org'
Subject: [geeks] Alpha check


I'm being offer a "Alpha PCI_33 Single board Computer" with a 166 alpha
chip. It has four SIMM sockets.  I have a P75 machine, with 2 FPM SIMMS
and 2 EDO SIMMS (or is it 4 EDO or 4FPM.  I'd have to reboot it to be
sure).  How likely is it that some or all of my old memory will work on
the Alpha board?  

This would be running Linux, and will be my primary fileserver replacing
affor mentioned P75.  That P75 isn't too slow (not real great), but it is
maxed out for expansion, and this board would let me go a bit farther.
Plus, I could use it to make sure my code is 64bit safe.