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| From | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.alpha |
| Subject | Re: WTD: UP1500 or UP2000+ motherboard |
| Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:04:13 GMT |
| Organization | Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien |
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tony@tonyjones.com writes: >I'd heard several other reports of the UP2000(+) not being long term reliab= >le. Thanks for confirming. Is the unobtanium UP1500 similarly afflicted? We bought two UP1500 systems, and one of them is working to this day. We don't remember what happened to the other, it has vanished. >If someone wanted an Alpha workstation which supports Linux, what would be= > the intersection of "fast" (for 2001 era), quiet (workstation), reliable a= >nd reasonably obtainable be? ATX form factor isn't essential, the UP1500= > just sounded like a nice system due to EV68/AGP/DDR. It is nice. We also have an AlphaStation XP1000, which works to this day, and we had two LX164 boxes with which we were happy, too (once we used SRM firmware instead of the horrible AlphaBIOS). I have no idea how obtainable these are nowadays, though. - anton -- M. Anton Ertl Some things have to be seen to be believed anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be seen http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
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WTD: UP1500 or UP2000+ motherboard tony@tonyjones.com - 2012-11-10 12:11 -0800
Re: WTD: UP1500 or UP2000+ motherboard Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2012-11-10 22:39 +0000
Re: WTD: UP1500 or UP2000+ motherboard Marc Schlensog <mschlens+news@gmail.com> - 2012-11-11 09:37 +0100
Re: WTD: UP1500 or UP2000+ motherboard tony@tonyjones.com - 2012-11-11 08:54 -0800
Re: WTD: UP1500 or UP2000+ motherboard Marc Schlensog <mschlens+news@gmail.com> - 2012-11-12 07:11 +0100
Re: WTD: UP1500 or UP2000+ motherboard tony@tonyjones.com - 2012-11-12 15:54 -0800
Re: WTD: UP1500 or UP2000+ motherboard Marc Schlensog <mschlens+news@gmail.com> - 2012-11-13 10:02 +0100
Re: WTD: UP1500 or UP2000+ motherboard anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-11-13 12:04 +0000
Re: WTD: UP1500 or UP2000+ motherboard DiskMan <wlgivens@gmail.com> - 2013-09-27 19:01 -0700
Re: WTD: UP1500 or UP2000+ motherboard Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2013-09-29 11:54 -0400
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