[geeks] This Litle Green Monster...

[Kevin]

I tried to run my Perception on an Alpha PS500au under NT 4.0 with
little success.  Although i haven't tried again since i found out how
to force SRM to allow unknown PCI devices..... i think i've found a
Sunday afternoon activity.

The Digital made Alphas are nice workstations but they don't seem to
have the same "fit and finish" as an SGI or Sun workstation does.

/KRM

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:46:34 -0500
Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:43:11PM +0100, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:51:28AM -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > > I too hope to eventually get my Octane to draw that much or
> > > hopefully more.
> > Well. My 500 MHz Alpha gave me comparable specs (OK, only one GFX
> > and "only" 640 MB RAM) for 1/3 of the power consumption. 
> 
> Yeah, but an Alpha just isn't the same as an Octane.  I certainly
> wouldn't mind an Alpha, but I'm unlikely to try to use an Alpha as
> a workstation at this point in my life.
> 
> For one thing, is there even any officially supported way, on any
> OS, by any vendor, to get SDI video in and out?  I know that if I
> chose to run NT 3.51 or 4 (ick) that I could get a Perception board
> for an Alpha, but that wouldn't really be the same since it'd be
> windows instead of a nice unix. 
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