[rescue] Time to replace the IPX
Scott Newell
newell at cei.net
Sat Dec 20 18:08:20 CST 2003
>> My OS requirements seem to eliminate SGI, and I suspect
>> anything Alpha based will be either too hot or too noisy.
>Depends. A PC164 board can take up to a 500 MHz EV56 CPU and is just a
>regular ATX board. So it depends on the box you build around it. My PWS
I like the idea of an Alpha. A lot. SCA drives, or would I need (ugh)
80->68 pin adapters?
>Or a U5/U10 with SCSI adapter?
Pass.
>AXi, AXe or the like?
Hmm. I'll have to investigate.
>IBM, well. The 43P-{100|133|140} machines are supported by NetBSD, but
>not by the latest AIX. So they may be cheap to get. The installer is
>broken, so you need a bit of hand work to get it on the disk. At the
>moment I run NetBSD/prep on a 43P-100 and it works well.
Having a hard time finding specs online...is that 10/100 networking
onboard? SCA drives? Is memory cheap and easy to find?
newell
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