[rescue] Alpha rescue

[joshua d boyd]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:16:10AM -0500, Hatle, Steven J. wrote:
> All,
> 
> I picked up an AXP150 ("Jensen") box this week from a local emporium. My
> first Alpha! <grin> I've poked around on the 'Net, and found that OpenBSD is
> not a supported platform, so I guess I'm stuck with some type of Linux. I'm
> not a VMS guy, and don't want to become one.  .  .

There is also NetBSD.  That seems to be popular if you don't need exotic
video hardware.

> Can any of the digerati among you answer me a few questions? This is an EISA
> box, and the only thing it was missing was a NIC. What are my chances of
> using one of the 3COM EISA NIC's I have, with the generic .CFG file from
> 3COM. My recollection of EISA is that this should Just Work; any reason I'd
> have to find a specific DEC card?

Digerati?  Isn't that a WiReD term?  Real geeks don't refer to themselves
in any many that WiReD would consider cool.  WiReD is for the secretaries
and "content" people of the .com era, not the real muscle. ;)
 
> Second- why should I not run Linux, and what should I run? I would have
> preferred a *BSD. Is it realistic to get one of the DEC OS's (OSF-1 or ?)
> Linux- been there, done that; however, I don't know if I want to learn
> another dialect of UNIX for what is essentially a toy.  .  .

A toy!?!  Put the box to work man.  Should make a decent file server at
the least.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd
http://www.cs.millersville.edu/~jdboyd/