> I've not been looking at the DEC gear recently, but last I did look the
number
> of Alpha boardc and CPUs seemed to have gone down drastically. I think
> the supply is drying up. Seriously, unless you need 64-bit, or are like
me
> and running OpenVMS, the question becomes, why? What you're going to be
> able to find and afford isn't going to be that fast compared to a
> Pentium III or IV Motherboard and processor which is likely to cost less.
Some of us have software that only runs on Alpha. Others like to play with
OSes other than MS Windows. Some like to build a machine that's different.
I'm looking for lower-end cpus and motherboards to run Linux, NetBSD,
FreeBSD, and OpenBSD on.
Jacek
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Received on Fri Jul 20 2001 - 15:46:45 BST