Re: Alphas worth saving?
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:08:24PM -0600, Mitch Thompson wrote:
>
> I have a chance to pick up some Alphastation's at work which are going to be
> thrown out. There are some Alphastation 500/266 MHz, an Alphaserver 600
> 5/300, and a PE50A-A9.
>
> So, where do these stand in the Alpha pantheon? I currenly have two
> Multia/UDB with 233 MHz CPUs.
Well, the AS500/266 (aka Maverick) has a 266MHZ EV5 CPU, and the AS600
5/300 (aka Alcor) has, as expected by the model number, an EV5 CPU at
300MHZ. Both of these would be *significant* upgrades from a UDB of
*any* flavor... :-)
IIRC, the Maverick takes EDO SIMM memory, which is hard to find, while
the Alcor takes more normal SIMMs, and has a great many more slots for
it.
The PE50A-A9 is a Flamingo; that means TurboChannel and probably a
150MHz EV4 CPU. But, it has no support, AFAIK, though there was
someone working on it...
--Jay++
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