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

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Now, if you dual boot with tru64 and have $5k to spare, you can purchase a
license to OpenGenera, the port of the Symbolics OS to run as a
development environment on Tru64.

Anyway, I here that FreeBSD on Alpha is nice, but I don't know how well it
runs Tru64 software.  This is relevant since if you want performance, the
Tru64 compiler generates much faster executables than gcc does, even if
the executable is running on an OS emulation layer. 

--
Joshua Boyd

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Robert Novak wrote:

> 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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