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Re: Alpha

'Mike Neuffer wrote:'
>
>On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
>> Anyone else want an Alpha? Check out
>> http://www.onsale.com/category/inv/00018802.htm . Bid closing is in
>> about two hours. Try not to bid against each other :-) .
>
>Their server got drowned and I couldn't up my bit.
>
>I put in another bit for a machine in the next lot which closes 
>on Friday. Please do not bit against me if possible. I want to put that
>machine here right beside master, so that developers can build
>ALPHA packages on it. 

One of my associates got one.  They are not the most impressive
machines.  It feels no faster than a high-end 486 to me.  Kernel
compiles take a half-hour or so.  That could be because the older Red
Hat version I used had no shared libraries.  But I didn't hit swap.
So I suspect that these old 166Mhz alphas are just not the killer
machines that the 500+Mhz alphas are :)

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