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Re: WTD: UP1500 or UP2000+ motherboard

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From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Subject Re: WTD: UP1500 or UP2000+ motherboard
Date Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:04:13 GMT
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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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