[rescue] Ok, so I went and looked at my Alpha box...

[Dave McGuire]

On July 17, Ken Hansen wrote:
> In a few weeks, when the dust settles, I'll try different OSes on the box - I seem
> to recall that the Alphastation 200 was very similar to the Multis, but without th
> e"brain-dead" memory access problems that severly limited performance. Also, the
> "beefy" 512K cache helps...

  The Multia's unbelievably crappy performance is due to
memory-related design flaws in the 21066 processor, not the Multia
that's wrapped around it.  Your AS200 is built around the 21064, its
(much faster) predecessor.

  The AS200 is a very nice little machine...compact, cheap, and capable
of accomplishing amazing amounts of work.  I'm running a few of them
here and I adore them.  Except for the one that I got from a certain
person here that still isn't running because it came without a
fan. 8-)

         -Dave McGuire