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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:19:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org, netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: many cheap PC164 boards -- gret for NetBSD
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On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> I've found a source of very cheap AlphaPC164 motherboards, with 500MHz CPU.

Sounds interesting; I've been thinking of getting a modern (i.e. pretty
fast :) and non-mainstream (i.e. not Intel x86 :) machine to play around
with... I know next to nothing about Alphas though; any place I can find
more info about these? What else will I need to build a system? Video
card? If so, will a standard PCI one for PeeCees work? Hard drive? IDE?
SCSI? Ethernet? etc... :)

Thanks...
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