New Definiton/ Vaporware lives still!

From: HOTZE <photze_at_batelco.com.bh>
Date: Tue Nov 18 12:20:33 1997

Okay... just a few more off topic questions (well, not about the old Alphas, which
is probably what this is going to be about) (1) Are old/new Motherboards
compatible (IE 300 Mhz now, 600 Mhz later) (2) Where on God's creation can I get
the parts???? (As for the OS, I'll probably take Linux, or NT, but I thought that
there was translation software for x86 written...)

Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> > <Speaking of Alpha's, is there any chance that I can put my own together? A
> > <agree... it's just plain stupid, and I hate Intel anyway... kind of like in
> >
> > Sure, you can buy them used for prices that aren't all that expensive
> > compared to late model 486 or early p5s. The older ones are now some 4-5
> > years old. The OS for it will cost you. You have three choices that I
> > know of, OpenVMS (my favorite), Digital Unix, or NT. I don't know that
> > anyone has done a UNIX port outside of digital.
> >
>
> Nope! There's Linux/Alpha. DEC gave Linus Torvalds an AV5 just to do the
> port.
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