[SunRescue] Nice little rescue at the swap today (alphastation -- OS suggestions?)

[Michael Free]

If you must download, have you looked into VMS?

Mike Free
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Novak <rnovak at indyramp.com>
To: rescue list <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Date: Monday, April 02, 2001 6:23 AM
Subject: [SunRescue] Nice little rescue at the swap today (alphastation --
OS suggestions?)


>Hi all,
>
>I rescued a "mystery" machine at a swap meet Sunday morning. THe guy
>selling it wasn't sure what it was or if it worked, but I recognized and
>understood the "Alphastation 250 4/266" on the front panel and the four
>big simms inside.
>
>Turns out it is actually a 266MHz Alphastation 250 with 256MB of memory,
>2GB of disk, 8bit video card, cdrom, and Windows NT 4.0 workstation. Turns
>out it works too. Oh, and it's a heck of a lot lighter than the
>Alphaserver 600. :-)  Not a bad $50 gamble!
>
>Anyway, I'm looking for suggestions on an OS to run on this. It has
>Windows NT but I don't have passwords for it. I would've had OpenBSD 2.8
>on it already if Alpha were on the CD. Since I'll have to download
>whatever I use anyway, I'm leaning toward FreeBSD or Debian Linux (maybe
>dual-boot with non-commercial Tru64).
>
>Any suggestions or caveats?
>
>--ROb
>
>--
>Robert Novak, Indyramp Consulting * rnovak at indyramp.com *
indyramp.com/~rnovak
>        "And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
>           Maybe this year will be better than the last...." -- counting
crows
>
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